(n.) A leader of the rabble; one who attempts to control the multitude by specious or deceitful arts; an unprincipled and factious mob orator or political leader.
Example Sentences:
(1) He lost no time climbing on the back of the clown car of the demagogue who, with ghoulishly oedipal glee, he calls “Daddy”.
(2) Just one problem: she was singing the praises of Donald Trump, that peerless narcissist, deceiver, dodgy deal maker and demagogue.
(3) Privacy advocates contend Comey is demagoguing the issue.
(4) Why Livingstone is not recognised as one of the most unprincipled demagogues in Britain after this performance – why, indeed, Labour has not expelled him – is one of the wonders of the age.
(5) Critics describe him as an authoritarian populist and dangerous demagogue.
(6) Admittedly, these moments, when the left – broadly defined – stir the passions as effectively as any demagogue of the right are rare.
(7) If white Americans need black villains to feel superior in their decline as 2015 closes – and as the leading demagogue Republican candidate for president can confirm, they do – then innocent victims like Tamir will continue to be killed, and those who do so will be rewarded with acquittal, fame or even promotion .
(8) O’Rourke warned that perhaps Trump was not the real threat, but that his candidacy seemed to spark “an impulse to like a demagogue.” Carr agreed Trump could be “the harbinger of something to come.
(9) He also wrote A Face in the Crowd (1957), about a rising demagogue.
(10) I am the last person on Earth [Clinton] wants to run against.” But the bully, showman, party crasher and demagogue – as Time’s cover put it – is also the last person many Republicans want to see at the top of the ticket, though arch conservative Cruz comes close.
(11) The Financial Times Deutschland last week published an article on its front page headlined " Resist the demagogue ".
(12) The Saudi strategy to derail the nuclear agreement and perpetuate – and even exacerbate – tension in the region has three components: pressuring the West; promoting regional instability through waging war in Yemen and sponsoring extremism; and directly provoking Iran .” Zarif added: “Let us not forget that the perpetrators of many acts of terror … as well as nearly all members of extremist groups like Al-Qaeda and the Nusra Front, have been either Saudi nationals or brainwashed by petrodollar-financed demagogues who have promoted anti-Islamic messages of hatred and sectarianism for decades.” Other Arab countries followed their Sunni ally in cutting or reducing diplomatic ties with predominantly Shia Iran.
(13) Abandoning the vast single market across the Channel doesn’t just mean reducing Britain to the status of lapdog to the woman-groping Muslim-bashing demagogue across the Atlantic.
(14) Tsipras is criticised as a populist, even a demagogue.
(15) They feign outrage that a demagogue spewing vile ... is somehow winning in a party that has spent years telling immigrants they’re not welcome in America,” said Reid.
(16) In the US, the racist demagogue Donald Trump blames the Brussels atrocity on Europe’s immigration policy, while his fellow Republican candidate Ted Cruz demands special patrols for Muslim communities to stop them being “radicalised” – a policy guaranteed to do the opposite.
(17) Distorting realities, ignoring nuances and hijacking people’s fears: that’s the recipe for a demagogue who lives not on his own wits but others’ miseries.
(18) Now they have won and what Kipling said of the demagogues of his age applies to Michael Gove, Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage.
(19) Beyond the violent and potentially violent lie fractured and isolated ghettos, where large numbers are prey to religious demagogues.
(20) I'm not a demagogue or an actor; the French expect something else from me, they want results," he said.
Demagogy
Definition:
(n.) Demagogism.
Example Sentences:
(1) "There is a strong need for real political leadership to resist the 'fortress Europe' temptation and to avoid extremism and demagogy," said Cecilia Malmström, the European commissioner for home affairs.
(2) I did this because I wanted to show that I don’t agree with this demagogy.
(3) Anonymous, 67-year-old from Budapest ‘I don’t agree with this demagogy’ I did not participate in this referendum by voting yes or no.
(4) Cameron was accused of demagogy in his anti-European rhetoric and he directed plenty of cheap shots at Brussels, overpaid and underworked eurocrats, and rival leaders allegedly seeking to paint him into a corner.