demagogic
Example Sentences
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Oedipus sees himself as an answer to the demagogic manipulation that has wrought havoc.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2025
"Ugly and appalling as they are, those speeches are masterpieces of demagogic manipulation," Neuborne says.
From Salon ● Aug. 22, 2023
It’s alert to the ways in which demagogic leaders or movements can use propaganda, an older term that can be synonymous with disinformation.
From New York Times ● Oct. 13, 2020
As a Virginia planter, Washington might have sympathized with Madison and Jefferson, but he shared the Federalists' love of order and increasingly distrusted Republicans as demagogic and irresponsible.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018
McAdoo in particular alienated financial circles because of his apparent suspicion of banking interest, and both, by their appeals to laboring men, laid themselves open to the charge of demagogic tactics.
From Woodrow Wilson and the World War A Chronicle of Our Own Times. by Charles Seymour
