demagogic
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
- demagogically adverb
Etymology
Origin of demagogic
1825–35; < Greek dēmagōgikós, equivalent to dēmagōg ( ós ) ( see demagogue) + -ikos -ic
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
The Pope made a last endeavour to avert the catastrophe by calling to his counsels Count Pellegrino Rossi, a man of unyielding will, who was as much opposed to demagogic as to theocratic government.
From The Liberation of Italy by Martinengo-Cesaresco, Countess Evelyn
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