demagog's Usage Examples:

Aesop must have received his freedom from Iadmon, or he could not have conducted the public defence of a certain Samian demagogue (Aristotle, Rhetoric, ii.

Bound by a secret understanding with the Radical leader Cavallotti, an able but unscrupulous demagogue, Rudini was compelled to bow to Radical exigencies.

In Cornwall especially the disorders grew to such a pitch that local demagogues called out several thousand men to resist the tax-collectors, and finally raised open.

Pollard's " the Guardianista fellow-travellers of terror " is simply lazy journalese and quite demagogic, like a right wing version of Galloway.

In war they trembled at the sound of a trumpet, in peace they quaked before the shouting of their own demagogues; and during the assault of Philip II.

Prefacing his action by a violent tirade against the royalist conspirators of Clichy, he sent to Paris General Augereau, well known for his brusque behaviour and demagogic Jacobinism.

Led by the great demagogue dictator, Jacob van Artevelde, they became the mainstay of the English party in the Netherlands.

The Assembly followed; and henceforth king and Assembly were more or less under the influence of the whims and passions of a populace maddened by want and suspicion, by the fanatical or unscrupulous incitements of an unfettered press, and by the unrestrained oratory of obscure demagogues in the streets, the cafs and the political clubs.

Being essentially a man of order, he loathed, as he said, all demagogic action, Jacobinism and visions of liberty, which he desired only for himself.

He was not always the best judge of character, and was sometimes allied in these movements with men who were little more than demagogues.

On both sides the anti-Semitic parties representing the extreme demagogic elements were present in considerable numbers.

In politics he was an earnest friend of liberty and progress, and in the period of reaction which followed the overthrow of Napoleon he was charged by the Prussian government with "demagogic agitation" in conjunction with the great patriot Arndt.

In the words of Aristotle he made his way through demagogy to tyranny.

Synonyms:

politico, demagogue, politician, pol, rabble-rouser, political leader,

Antonyms:

follower,