Crossword-Solution: DEMAGOGUE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Demagogue | n. | 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. |
We have 10 clues for the answer “DEMAGOGUE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Emotion-arousing politico | 1 answer |
| Incite-ful orator | 1 answer |
| The "mob's lackey," so called by Diogenes. | 1 answer |
| Political agitator. | 2 answers |
| Orator | 15 answers |
| Demonstrator | 18 answers |
| Rabble-rouser | 28 answers |
| Protester | 32 answers |
| firebrand | 45 answers |
| Agitator | 70 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
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covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with DEMAGOGUE (5)
The moon, too, which had long been climbing overhead, and unobtrusively melting its disk into the azure,—like an ambitious demagogue, who hides his aspiring purpose by assuming the prevalent hue of popular sentiment,—now began to shine out, broad and oval, in its middle pathway.
There is in the world a very aged rioter and demagogue who breaks into the most refined retreats with the dreadful information that all men are brothers, and wherever this leveller went on his pale horse it was Father Brown’s trade to follow.
This youth had been a prodigy at college, and European fame was promised him when he was barely fifteen; but when he appeared in the world he failed, first publicly as a dramatist and a demagogue, and then privately for years on end as an actor, a traveller, a commission agent or a journalist.
Impudent puppy!--foul-mouthed demagogue! I'll SHOW him!" "Why, he doesn't amount to anything, father," remonstrated the girl.
They hoped thus to enable their Legislature plausibly to resist Scarborough's demand for a revision of the laws--why revise when the cry of monopoly had been shown to be a false issue raised by a demagogue to discredit the tried leaders of the party and to aggrandize himself? And, when Scarborough had been thoroughly "exposed," business could be resumed gradually.
Quotes with DEMAGOGUE (3)
What, more realistically, is this “mutation,” the “new man”? He is the rootless man, discontinuous with a past that Nihilism has destroyed, the raw material of every demagogue’s dream; the “free-thinker” and skeptic, closed only to the truth but “open” to each new intellectual fashion because he himself has no intellectual foundation; the “seeker” after some “new revelation,” ready to believe anything new because true faith has been annihilated in him; the planner and experim…
It can certainly be misleading to take the attributes of a movement, or the anxieties and contradictions of a moment, and to personalize or 'objectify' them in the figure of one individual. Yet ordinary discourse would be unfeasible without the use of portmanteau terms — like 'Stalinism,' say — just as the most scrupulous insistence on historical forces will often have to concede to the sheer personality of a Napoleon or a Hitler. I thought then, and I think now, that Osama b…
behind each breakaway movement is a breakaway demagogue who will set up his breakaway demagogue government.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NYT.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (1959–2016).