DEMAGOGIC Synonyms: 32 Similar and Opposite Words

demagogic

adjective

Definition of demagogic

as in rabble-rousing

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Recent Examples of demagogic Targeting this sliver of the market as the primary villain of the affordability crisis is a fundamental, demagogic misdiagnosis. — Steve Forbes, Forbes.com, 17 Mar. 2026 Some earlier leaders of the religious right were also cruel and demagogic. — Hillary Rodham Clinton, The Atlantic, 29 Jan. 2026 So do the teachers who bond together, with their own rubber-bullet guns, to form the PTAA (Parent Teacher Arms Association), in a cartoonishly demagogic response to the issue of school safety. — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 27 Jan. 2026 On the other side, the Reverend Al Sharpton, a corpulent, demagogic presence, took up the victims’ cause, and was seen by some as a radical, and by almost everyone as an opportunist. — Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for demagogic

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In October 2019, China paused sponsorship deals with the National Basketball Association after Houston Rockets executive Daryl Morey posted online in support of protests in Hong Kong, which Beijing characterizes as separatist and seditious.

— Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 28 Oct. 2026
Some were arrested over social media posts whose criticism of the government was alleged to be seditious.

— Jennifer Jett, NBC news, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of seditious

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Time is running out for a Republican Party led astray by a president whose treacherous behavior mimics those assigned to the lowest level of Dante’s hell.

— Bob Kustra, Chicago Tribune, 22 Oct. 2026
Russell doesn’t traffick in any of that, and screenwriter Christopher Logue refuses to pathologize the two, focusing instead on the untamed beauty of their relationship, which was romantic, familiar, treacherous, and pure.

— Juan A. Ramírez, Vulture, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of treacherous

Adjective

Telemachus’ lone contribution is killing Melanthius, the traitorous Ithacan farmhand, thus preventing him from continuing to arm the suitors.

— Marlow Stern, Variety, 17 July 2026
And at the very center of Hell is Satan himself, the traitorous Archangel Lucifer, depicted as a monstrous creature with wings and three heads.

— Keith Cooper, Space.com, 11 May 2026

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