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  • adverb In a demagogic fashion.

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demagogic +‎ -ally or demagogical +‎ -ly.

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Examples

  • It's one thing to have a very specific and extreme opinion on a subject and to demagogically slam it into someone's face with all the subtlety of a bar fight, but Brietbart isn't simply about that; the man is, as Bob Cesca put it perfectly, a serial liar and a scam artist.

    Chez Pazienza: ABC News to Redeem Guy With No Redeeming Qualities Chez Pazienza 2010

  • It's one thing to have a very specific and extreme opinion on a subject and to demagogically slam it into someone's face with all the subtlety of a bar fight, but Brietbart isn't simply about that; the man is, as Bob Cesca put it perfectly, a serial liar and a scam artist.

    Chez Pazienza: ABC News to Redeem Guy With No Redeeming Qualities Chez Pazienza 2010

  • Obama, on the other hand, demagogically campaigned against repealing the Bush tax cuts, and apparently meant it.

    Matthew Yglesias » Ungovernable 2009

  • The true core of the intellectual tradition is not obscurity, not a discriminatory use of jargon, not any of the unfortunate abuses that are demagogically expanded into anti-intellectual bludgeons — it is, rather, the faith, the intellectual security that a persevering mind at any stage of learning can master any idea, any practice, any subject, and can then transmit a roadmap to such mastery to anyone else inclined to take the journey.

    Archive 2008-09-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2008

  • The true core of the intellectual tradition is not obscurity, not a discriminatory use of jargon, not any of the unfortunate abuses that are demagogically expanded into anti-intellectual bludgeons — it is, rather, the faith, the intellectual security that a persevering mind at any stage of learning can master any idea, any practice, any subject, and can then transmit a roadmap to such mastery to anyone else inclined to take the journey.

    All your compliments and your cutting remarks / Are captured here in my quotation marks Matthew Guerrieri 2008

  • I'm not sure about Soros, but Shumer is DIRECTLY implicated in multiple aspects of the predicament we're in, from support of Fannie Mae even when people were trying to regulate it, to whole hearted support of the deregulation of banks which he then demagogically pinned on republicans even though it was passed by Clinton and he Shumer spoke gloriously of its passage.

    Why not put people to work by paying them to water their own lawns? Ann Althouse 2009

  • De-moralization - much of it demagogically based, vainglorious and resolutely in denial.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

  • De-moralization - much of it demagogically based, vainglorious and resolutely in denial.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

  • Jimmy Carter may have run successfully against Washington and Bill Clinton famously said that ���the era of big government is over, ��� but Clinton himself told staff after the Oklahoma City federal building was leveled because it was a federal building that he would never again mock ���bureaucrats��� in speeches because it demagogically undermined the very purpose of government.

    Mark Green: Government After Katrina ��� Air America Begins the Debate 2008

  • I do this because -- having overseen an entirely-Republican dominated government for six years, during which Republicans of every shape and size have marginalized, demonized, blocked, shut out, exiled, reviled, and demagogically vilified every Democrat in the country -- I have no shame, no memory, and no common sense.

    Ellis Weiner: What Joe Klein Should Have Said Bush Should Have Said 2008

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