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Demagogy   /dˈɛməgˌɑdʒi/   Listen
Demagogy

noun
1.
Impassioned appeals to the prejudices and emotions of the populace.  Synonym: demagoguery.






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"Demagogy" Quotes from Famous Books



... a grey beard and long grey hair. He is overflowing with soured generosity, charitable violence and a sort of chivalrous demagogy; there is a love in his heart with which he stirs up hatred; he is tall, thin, young looking at a distance, old when seen nearer, wrinkled, bewildered, hoarse, flurried, wan, has a wild look in his eyes and gesticulates; he is the Don Quixote of the Mountain. ...
— The Memoirs of Victor Hugo • Victor Hugo

... suffered—and, fiercest of all, of wrath against Editor Bruce, who had so ruthlessly, and for such selfish ends, incited the popular feeling against him. She would make such a fight as Westville had never seen! She would show those lawyers who had been reduced to cowards by Bruce's demagogy! She would bring the town ...
— Counsel for the Defense • Leroy Scott

... Paul de Lagarde idealized the Middle Ages as showing the perfect expression of German character and he detested "the coarse, scolding Luther, who never saw further than his two hobnailed shoes, and who by his demagogy, brought in barbarism and split Germany into fragments." Nevertheless even he saw, at times, that the Reformation meant a triumph of nationalism, and found it significant that the Basques, who were not a nation, should have produced, in Loyola and Xavier, the two greatest champions ...
— The Age of the Reformation • Preserved Smith



Words linked to "Demagogy" :   prayer, entreaty, demagoguery, appeal, jingoism, demagogical, demagogic, flag waving



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