demagogue

Speech parts

1. demagogue - Noun

2. demagogue - Verb

Meaning

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.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

demagog speaker manipulator firebrand radical revolutionary rebel subversive reformer orator incendiary insurgent fanatic propagandist renegade
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Antonyms

audience philosopher pupil listener solver fixer
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Hypernyms

pol politico politician political leader

Examples

A demagogue is a person with whom we disagree as to which gang should mismanage the country. Don Marquis

The secret of the demagogue is to make himself as stupid as his audience so that they believe they are as clever as he. Karl Kraus

The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots. H. L. Mencken

Better a loving single parent family than a 'conventional' family wherein the parents hate each other and the father is a demagogue. Moby

Freedom is a demagogue. Giannina Braschi

One may become a demagogue out of sheer political innocence. Vladimir Lenin

Close letter words and terms

demagogically demagogism demagogracy demagoguery demagoguism demagogy