Demagogues is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DEMAGOGUES in dictionary:

NOUN:
• DEMAGOGUE, a person who appeals to the prejudices and emotions of the people to gain power
• a political leader who seeks support by appealing to popular desires and prejudices rather than by using rational argument
• (in ancient Greece and Rome) a leader or orator who espoused the cause of the common people
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a leader who makes use of popular prejudices and false claims and promises in order to gain power

Words related to DEMAGOGUES

demagogue14

How to use DEMAGOGUES in a sentence

• The laws were not a mockery, as in republican Borne, where demagogues had the ascendency, and prepared the way for usurpation and tyranny.
• The demagogues collected mobs round the courthouse to intimidate the judges, and the judges proved as base as the accusers themselves.
• I make no doubt but they have architects, demagogues, senators, musicians, and philosophers amongst them.
• It was roundly asserted, too, that all this reform agitation was the work of demagogues and infidels.
• These were the classes the mob represented, though seemingly composed of gamblers, liquor dealers, and demagogues.
• All governors of mankind, from doctors and jail-wardens to demagogues and statesmen, instinctively come so to conceive their charges.
• He fell at once an easy prey to political demagogues, and before the close of his first administration, demoralization was widespread throughout the government.
• Timid men consider it as a proof of the weakness of our government, and that it is to be rent into pieces by demagogues and to end in anarchy.
• The fact is that, despite the assertions of demagogues, the holdings on which the people now live cannot support them, and, in fact, never have supported them.
• In order to secure his election, he entered into close connection with two of the worst demagogues that ever appeared at Rome, Saturninus and Glaucia.
• Meetings were held in various quarters, and demagogues addressed the assembled multitudes in the most inflammatory language.
• Self-seeking political adventurers and demagogues have not been slow to take advantage of this feeling for their own purposes.
• CHAPTER XXVI PROPRIETY IN DEBATE The race of demagogues we have always with us.
• In truth, he ran a race with the demagogues of his time in an attempt to capture such men as these, thinking them the very backbone of the country.
• But angry frontiersmen, stirred up by demagogues, are not given to much reflection, and they meant to have their own way.
• Demagogues tried to remove the regulations of liberty.
• The king threw himself into the arms of demagogues who thought that freedom and independence were to be won by phrases and proclamations.
• He knew that for the true reconstruction of the country something more was needed than bayonets and bullets, or the schemes of selfish politicians or plotting demagogues.
• But Marius, a political incapable, separated from the demagogues, and by helping to crush them, effaced himself.
• Yet Shakespeare and Scott are certainly alike in this, that they could both, if literature had failed, have earned a living as professional demagogues.
• We watch the very classes from which, as we have been so often told, the regeneration of France would have come, if only demagogues and rabble had not violently interposed.
• As if matters were not bad enough already, there are demagogues who are stirring up class feeling by proposing new laws.
• What you take to be the noise of demagogues, I consider to be the sober sense of a great people which is just finding adequate expression.
• Lincoln is using it, to enable demagogues in the country to try and deceive the people.

Similar words containing MAGOGUE without suffix s and without prefix de

demagogue14 hemagogue16 demagogued16 haemagogue17 hemagogues17 demagoguery19 haemagogues18 phlegmagogue22 demagogueries18 phlegmagogues23

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