What's the difference between demagogue and orator?

Demagogue


Definition:

  • (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.

Orator


Definition:

  • (n.) A public speaker; one who delivers an oration; especially, one distinguished for his skill and power as a public speaker; one who is eloquent.
  • (n.) In equity proceedings, one who prays for relief; a petitioner.
  • (n.) A plaintiff, or complainant, in a bill in chancery.
  • (n.) An officer who is the voice of the university upon all public occasions, who writes, reads, and records all letters of a public nature, presents, with an appropriate address, those persons on whom honorary degrees are to be conferred, and performs other like duties; -- called also public orator.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Remarkably, few of the avid conference organizers, and few of their fiery orators, ever stop to think just what resource flow has actually been constricting.
  • (2) So it is little surprise that a campaign, led by orators as persuasive as Boris Johnson and Michael Gove, promising to address all these anxieties in one fell geostrategic swoop, should be gaining in popularity.
  • (3) In an active life he was doctor, dentist, orator, editor, publisher, Harvard medical student, explorer, dabbler in Central American politics, army officer, and Reconstruction office seeker.
  • (4) He may not be the greatest orator, sometimes stressing the wrong word in a sentence or stumbling over his Autocue, and he may not deliver media-managed soundbites with the ease that the PM does, but he is good with the public.
  • (5) He read Virgil , Ovid , Horace and Juvenal in the original, as well as Roman senatorial orations.
  • (6) There is a kind of assassination, a funeral oration and someone with blood on his hands.
  • (7) But he'd been doing a bit of holiday cover for daytime DJs, and he has a tendency to, as he puts it, "ramble on": he recently treated the nation to a nine-minute oration on the shortcomings of Madonna's gig at Hyde Park.
  • (8) The 1976 Cushing orator takes a critical look at federal medical programs today, and at the health desires and needs of the public.
  • (9) The 1978 Cushing Orator shows the role of rhetoric in the process by which various specialties change in response to sociological and legislative demands.
  • (10) CV Sir Michael Marmot Age 65 Lives London Education University of Sydney; University of Berkeley PhD Career 1971-85: epidemiologist, University of Berkeley; research professor of epidemiology and public health, University College London 1986-present: chair of the Commission on Social Determinants of Health set up by the World Health Organisation in 2005; led the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (Elsa) 2004: won the Balzan Prize for Epidemiology 2006: gave the Harveian Oration 2008: won the William B Graham Prize for Health Services Research 2010 (February): published the report, Fair Society, Healthy Lives, based on a review of health inequalities he conducted at the request of the British government 2010-2011: president of the British Medical Association Family married, three children Interests tennis, playing viola The Marmot Review NHS Confederation Conference The Black Report
  • (11) Read more The MEPs responded to his oration with a mixture of boos, groans, shouts and ironic applause.
  • (12) Le Pen makes headlines and is a good orator – smooth and tough at the same time.
  • (13) The 1977 Cushing Orator looks at the question of neurosurgical manpower and its relation to national health policies, proposed or abandoned.
  • (14) These results suggest that by forming heterodimers, more elab-orate control of transcription can be achieved by creating receptor combinations with differing activities.
  • (15) Scholes, meanwhile, has spent most of the past two decades captivating football fans with incisive passing, but rarely with his public utterances, which have almost always seemed to bore the orator as much as his listeners.
  • (16) "He's a good orator all right," said Des Pokrzywnicki, a Warburtons stalwart of 11 years.
  • (17) When Rubio’s campaign launched last April, he drew immediate comparisons to another young orator: Barack Obama.
  • (18) Among them were her husband Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, two of the most skilled orators American politics has ever known and, as the men Clinton seeks to succeed, predecessors with whom her own rhetorical gifts are often compared.
  • (19) A gifted orator, he uses hyperbole and alarmism to great effect, pandering to popular prejudices.
  • (20) King was winding up what would have been a well-received but, by his standards, fairly unremarkable oration.