(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.
Demigod
Definition:
(n.) A half god, or an inferior deity; a fabulous hero, the offspring of a deity and a mortal.
Example Sentences:
(1) Bowie’s 1973 album Aladdin Sane, recorded between the two North American stints of the Ziggy Stardust tour, was conceived as “Ziggy goes to America”, the rock demigod encountering a place equal to his glamour and madness, from the riots of Panic in Detroit to the Hollywood decadence of Cracked Actor, and the sexual alienation of Drive-In Saturday, the title alone a play on the drive-in movie theatres which even now seem so glamorously foreign to Brits.
(2) When Angelina Jolie and Leonardo DiCaprio signed up to humanitarian and environmental causes, for instance, they were already untouchably glamorous demigods whose lives seemed a million miles away from their fans’, and whose jet-setting activism seemed almost as distant.
(3) He achieved that demigod-like status, at least in Pennsylvania and among Penn State fans.
(4) Cable said: "It is clear that in banks like RBS the demigod status granted to Fred Goodwin prevented any form of credible scrutiny.
(5) The more famous phrase was an invention of Turner's friend, John Ruskin , the critic who made the artist a kind of demigod, championing his every brushstroke.
(6) Produced by Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim, veritable demigods of the online comedy scene, 555’s hipster credentials are close to unassailable.
(7) For every weedy Peter Parker or Tony Stark sans Iron Man armour, there are armies of demigods looking ripped in latex and leather, many of them played by people called Chris.
(8) At least it is for Tom Derry, who visits the fenced-off shrine in Detroit’s Corktown neighbourhood every week, in memory of the demigods who once walked here.
(9) Saturday saw Lybke, hungover but still in paunchy Teutonic demigod mode, glad-handing the crowd who were eddying through his gallery.
(10) Ayman Youssef Mansour also received three years, but this time not for offending the demigods of the military but rather for "insulting" Islam , "promoting extremist ideas" and "inciting sectarianism" on Facebook.
(11) Australian actor Chris Hemsworth rounds out the top five with $37m, thanks to his roles as a Norse demigod in last year's Thor: The Dark World and the 2012 $1.5bn box-office megalith The Avengers .
(12) And yet, just as an atheist would argue the universe is all the more beautiful and wondrous when divine intervention is removed from the equation, so Smith found his admiration for Mandela grew as he understood the flesh and blood human being, rather than the demigod.
(13) We’re still waiting to see whether Captain America will use his ability, as yet unmentioned in the films and unknown to Cap, to wield Thor’s hammer – and with it the demigod’s power.
(14) He achieved a sort of demigod status in the state, where his 2015 escape was greeted with celebratory gunfire and choruses of narcocorridos (songs lionizing narcos).