demagogue
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- n a political leader who seeks support by appealing to popular passions and prejudices
- The demagogues appeal to the poor and the gullible through their oratory and chicanery.
- In Stacton's opinion, he was merely "a paper demagogue" who wrote lively pamphlets and had "the dignity of a toy lion.
- The greatest is Julius Caesar, penniless patrician, demagogue, traitor to his class, brilliant lawyer, writer, invincible general, creator of an empire.