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  • noun Plural form of demagogue.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of demagogue.

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Examples

  • And even then, Mr. Obama acknowledges that he will face tough opposition, what he calls demagogues who say any pathway to legalization is unacceptable.

    CNN Transcript Aug 11, 2009 2009

  • It should be held up as a crime to the execration of our children and of coming ages; and to this end we must condemn the conspirators by a national judgment that will ever after deter unprincipled and unscrupulous demagogues from a like attempt.

    Abraham Lincoln; His Life and Its Lessons 1865

  • Even Mr. Ponsonby, who lately made so pathetic an appeal to the good sense of the people of England against those whom he was pleased to term demagogues, actually receives, for having been thirteen months in office, a sum equal to nine admirals who have spent their lives in the service of their country; three times as much as all the pensions given to all the daughters and children of all the admirals, captains, lieutenants, and other officers who have died in indigent circumstances, or who have been killed in the service.

    The Life of Thomas, Lord Cochrane, Tenth Earl of Dundonald, G.C.B., Admiral of the Red, Rear-Admiral of the Fleet, Etc., Etc. Vol. I Thomas Barnes Cochrane Dundonald 1873

  • Even Mr. Ponsonby, who lately made so pathetic an appeal to the good sense of the people of England against those whom he was pleased to term demagogues, actually receives, for having been thirteen months in office, a sum equal to nine admirals who have spent their lives in the service of their country; three times as much as all the pensions given to all the daughters and children of all the admirals, captains, lieutenants, and other officers who have died in indigent circumstances, or who have been killed in the service.

    The Life of Thomas Lord Cochrane Cochrane, Thomas 1869

  • Kirwan also claims that overdue reforms were effected by the so-called demagogues, curbing the corporations, regulating public utilities, tax equalization, the building of hospitals and sanitoriums, literacy programs.

    Oral History Interview with Lucy Somerville Howorth, June 20, 22, and 23, 1975. Interview G-0028. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) 1975

  • It is for every man, therefore, to keep an earnest and heedful eye to his own needs and the wants of those about him, if the _vox populi_ would be _vox Dei_, the utterance of God's truth; otherwise the opinion of the people will be the voice of demagogues, which is as far as possible from the voice of God.

    The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 3, March, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

  • Now this chance of punishment proceeded altogether from those accusing orators commonly called demagogues, [67] and from the popular judicature whom they addressed.

    The Two Great Retreats of History George Grote 1832

  • It would be easy to name demagogues whose popularity has remained undiminished while sovereigns and parliaments have withdrawn their confidence from a long succession of statesmen.

    The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 1 Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay 1829

  • But what'll ultimately defeat the demagogues is the third factor in the article:

    Propeller Most Popular Stories Progressive 2010

  • But what'll ultimately defeat the demagogues is the third factor in the article:

    Propeller Most Popular Stories Progressive 2010

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