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Definición de demagogue en inglés:


Silabificación: dem·a·gogue
Pronunciación: /ˈdeməˌgäg


  • 1A political leader who seeks support by appealing to popular desires and prejudices rather than by using rational argument.
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    rabble-rouser, agitator, political agitator, soapbox orator, firebrand, fomenter, provocateur
  • 1.1(In ancient Greece and Rome) a leader or orator who espoused the cause of the common people.
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    • School children are taught that democracy in ancient Greece failed because demagogues whipped up mobs.



Pronunciación: /ˌdeməˈgäjik, -ˈgägik, -ˈgōjik/
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  • Scapegoats have been created in a demagogic and provocative fashion in order to justify the strengthening of existing laws.
  • Overall, this stance of ‘solve X and Y before you tackle Z’ comes across to me as mere demagogic rhetoric, the end result of which will be that X, Y, and Z will remain unsolved.
  • To describe this film as dishonest and demagogic would almost be to promote these terms to the level of respectability.


Pronunciación: /ˈdeməˌgägərē/
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  • We are against demagoguery, dishonesty, short-sightedness, superstition, fundamentalism, unequal rights, and violent argument.
  • Where such traditions are absent or weak, popular sovereignty easily turns into populist dictatorship, liberal democracy to libertinism and demagoguery.
  • It's also because decades of right-wing demagoguery have succeeded in making the word ‘liberal’ a pejorative term to swing voters.


Pronunciación: /ˈdeməˌgäjē, -ˌgōjē/
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  • The closest we get to your representation of consumer capitalism is the strategy of pattern recognition, but even that is still miles away from your neoliberal demagogy.
  • Paranoia can be fun as a plot device. As national policy, however, it is extraordinarily dangerous, leading to the worst sort of demagogy and extremism.
  • Many cling to this illusion, giving rise to personality cults that eventually lead to demagogy and authoritarianism.


mid 17th century: from Greek dēmagōgos, from dēmos 'the people' + agōgos 'leading' (from agein 'to lead').

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