Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to the Populists or to Populism; of the nature of Populism.
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Examples
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You do not have to be a political expert or a brilliant analyst of the Israeli situation in order to understand that our parliament represents us: "populistic, declamatory, irresponsible and saturated with racism" (Haaretz).
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You do not have to be a political expert or a brilliant analyst of the Israeli situation in order to understand that our parliament represents us: "populistic, declamatory, irresponsible and saturated with racism" (Haaretz).
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While transparency opens the way to better accountability, there is a permanent risk that information is used for opportunistic and populistic reasons.
Digital and media literacy is key for public services 2.0 2009
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That's why we prefer television, populistic politics, and Starbucks.
"Lon Ponschock: Althouse should be willing to debate." Ann Althouse 2008
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When he said he wanted a government that was as good as the American people, he acted like someone who wanted a populistic version of government.
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I write that he was the most populistic president that we've had since Andrew Jackson.
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The Republican Party -- although it was populistic on slavery, it was a free-soil party in its origin, which, of course, is very populist in a lot of its implications.
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He ran with a populistic kind of message in 1976, particularly in the primaries.
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The press, for the last 200 years -- ever since this country began -- has always been populistic.
See How They Run: Electing a President in an Age of Mediaocracy 1990
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Nonetheless, after a generation or two, the movement withered away leaving few traces behind it (except for the German Lutheran cities of the north); and this occurred, not because the movement was persecuted out of existence, but because its principal sponsors, the independent-minded szlachta, abandoned it for a revived, populistic Catholicism as a result of the crisis of national survival produced by the mid-seventeenth-century Swedish invasion, the "Deluge."
Poland's Past Kasparek, Jozef 1984
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