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The national debate on Social Security has been cheapened by demagoguery on all sides.
Bill Delahunt

Meaning of "demagoguery" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF DEMAGOGUERY

demagoguery  [ˌdɛməˈɡɒɡərɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DEMAGOGUERY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Demagoguery is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES DEMAGOGUERY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

demagoguery

Demagogue

A demagogue /ˈdɛməɡɒɡ/ or rabble-rouser is a political leader in a democracy who appeals to the emotions, fears, prejudices, and ignorance of the lower classes in order to gain power and promote political motives. Demagogues usually oppose deliberation and advocate immediate, violent action to address a national crisis; they accuse moderate and thoughtful opponents of weakness. Demagogues have appeared in democracies since ancient Athens. They exploit a fundamental weakness in democracy: because ultimate power is held by the people, nothing stops the people from giving that power to someone who appeals to the lowest common denominator of a large segment of the population.

Definition of demagoguery in the English dictionary

The definition of demagoguery in the dictionary is the methods, practices, or rhetoric of a demagogue.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DEMAGOGUERY


allegory
ˈælɪɡərɪ
buggery
ˈbʌɡərɪ
Calgary
ˈkælɡərɪ
category
ˈkætɪɡərɪ
doggery
ˈdɒɡərɪ
froggery
ˈfrɒɡərɪ
Gregory
ˈɡrɛɡərɪ
groggery
ˈɡrɒɡərɪ
hoggery
ˈhɒɡərɪ
Hungary
ˈhʌŋɡərɪ
Nagari
ˈnɑːɡərɪ
pedagoguery
ˌpedəˈɡɒɡərɪ
pettifoggery
ˈpɛtɪˌfɒɡərɪ
piggery
ˈpɪɡərɪ
skulduggery
skʌlˈdʌɡərɪ
subcategory
ˈsʌbˌkætəɡərɪ
sugary
ˈʃʊɡərɪ
thuggery
ˈθʌɡərɪ
toggery
ˈtɒɡərɪ
vinegary
ˈvɪnɪɡərɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DEMAGOGUERY

demagnetisation
demagnetise
demagnetiser
demagnetization
demagnetize
demagnetizer
demagog
demagogic
demagogical
demagogically
demagogies
demagogism
demagogue
demagoguism
demagogy
demain
demaine
demand
demand bill
demand deposit

WORDS THAT END LIKE DEMAGOGUERY

bakery
battery
broguery
celery
delivery
discovery
eatery
every
gallery
grocery
grotesquery
imagery
mystery
photo gallery
query
recovery
roguery
special-delivery
surgery
very

Synonyms and antonyms of demagoguery in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «demagoguery» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DEMAGOGUERY

Find out the translation of demagoguery to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of demagoguery from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «demagoguery» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

煽动
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

demagogia
570 millions of speakers

English

demagoguery
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

demagoguery
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الديماغوجية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

демагогия
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

demagogia
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

demagoguery
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

démagogie
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Demagoguery
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Demagogie
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

民衆扇動
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

선동
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Demagoguery
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

mị dân
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

திருப்திப்படுத்தும்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

डेमॅगॉग्युरी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

demagoji
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

demagogia
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

demagogia
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

демагогія
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

demagogie
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

δημαγωγία
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

demagogie
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

demagogi
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

demagogi
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of demagoguery

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DEMAGOGUERY»

The term «demagoguery» is regularly used and occupies the 67.917 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DEMAGOGUERY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «demagoguery» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «demagoguery» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about demagoguery

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7 QUOTES WITH «DEMAGOGUERY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word demagoguery.
1
Zbigniew Brzezinski
Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers.
2
Robert Dallek
Foreign policy - dealing as it does with the most charged political subjects of all, the safety and dignity of the nation - will always be political terrain particularly vulnerable to distortion and demagoguery.
3
Bill Delahunt
The national debate on Social Security has been cheapened by demagoguery on all sides.
4
Todd Gitlin
We may repeat the awful revolutionary history of the 20th century because of the vulnerability of social movements to demagoguery.
5
Michelle Malkin
While Obama, the olive-branch poseur, has called for a restoration of 'civility' in Washington and liberal elites whine and whinny about the need for 'no labels,' class-warfare demagoguery has metastasized unchecked.
6
Ron Paul
I have never met anyone who did not support our troops. Sometimes, however, we hear accusations that someone or some group does not support the men and women serving in our Armed Forces. But this is pure demagoguery, and it is intellectually dishonest.
7
Paul Ryan
Exploiting people's emotions of fear, envy and anxiety is not hope, it's not change, it's partisanship. We don't need partisanship. We don't need demagoguery, we need solutions.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DEMAGOGUERY»

Discover the use of demagoguery in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to demagoguery and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Mugged: Racial Demagoguery from the Seventies to Obama
This is one of the very few, and one of the very best.” —Thomas Sowell For decades, the Left has been putting on a play with themselves as heroes in an ongoing civil rights movement—from which they were mostly absent at the time.
Ann Coulter, 2012
2
The emergence of mass politics in Spain: populist ...
This book scrutinizes the unfolding of mass politics in Spain in the shape of the republican movement and in particular the figure of Alejandro Lerroux, who led the radical left in Barcelona in the first decade of the twentieth century.
José Álvarez Junco, 2002
3
Woodrow Wilson and the Roots of Modern Liberalism
Demagoguery, then, which feeds on the irrational passions of the people, becomes less of a concern as modern democracy comes into its own. Such reasoning is an important component of Wilson's essay "The Modern Democratic State," in ...
Ronald J. Pestritto, 2005
4
Presidential Selection: Theory and Development
Demagoguery was further understood to assume different forms, depending on the status of the leader. If the popular leader was a gentleman or a commoner who had achieved prominence by some singular deed, usually military, the appeal ...
James W. Ceaser, 1979
5
The Rhetorical Presidency
The founders' preoccupation with demagoguery may appear today as quaint, yet it may be that we do not fear demagoguery today because the founders were so successful in institutionally proscribing some forms of it. The original Greek ...
Jeffrey Tulis, 1987
6
Democracy and the Quest for Justice: Russian and American ...
Most often this altered form is moral demagoguery. Moral demagoguery can be defined as the misuse of moral evaluation by shifting its vectors: the subject directs toward herself or himself that which should be directed toward others ( namely, ...
William Gay, T. A. Alekseeva, 2004
7
Nigeria: Leadership and Development
Now, it is important to further stress that leadership must be distinguished from a related phenomenon – demagoguery. Demagoguery presents similar qualities as leadership; both claim to lead to higher goals. But the latter is real and the ...
Peter Ekekwe, 2011
8
Designing a Polity: America's Constitution in Theory and ...
For all these concerns, however, most commentators have been reluctant to invoke the “d” word (demagoguery), perhaps because it offends democratic scruples by suggesting that part of the problem lies with a defect in the people. The more ...
James W. Ceaser, 2010
9
Democracy Disfigured
Uprooting the middle and radicalizing the social poles: this is what demagoguery makes explicit and exploits; this is when majority rule achieves an intensity that is unknown to a constitutional democracy. What for? Why is a more intense ...
Nadia Urbinati, 2014
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The Ethics and Politics of Speech: Communication and ...
Charles W. Lomas, for example, argued in 1961 that “the kinship between rhetoric and demagoguery imposes obligations upon the teacher of speech to demand ethical use of facts to support intelligently conceived ideas.” This kinship was a ...
Pat J. Gehrke, 2009

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DEMAGOGUERY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term demagoguery is used in the context of the following news items.
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Demagoguery, Donald Trump, and Charles Coughlin
We'll talk about Trump's latest demagoguery, and demagoguery of the not-so distant past. Father Coughlin, was a controversial Roman ... «kpfa 94.1fm, Jul 15»
2
How Israel could wind up following the lemmings of Greece over the …
Instead, they have gone the road of demagoguery. They're not the only ones. Argentinians have been smitten by the promises of demagogues ... «Haaretz, Jul 15»
3
Is Tsipras really looking for a deal with Europe?
... that faced with the collapse of its banks and empty supermarket shelves would place its trust in a 40-year-old with a gift for demagoguery. «The Guardian, Jul 15»
4
Evo Morales Dumbs Down Bolivian Society to Stay in Power
This notion has been reinforced by the demagoguery that irradiates from these politicians — all under the guise of an impossible march to ... «PanAm Post, Jul 15»
5
Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom disses Donald — dumps Trump money
... didn't back away from the criticism of Trump, telling us not only that he is “a punk and a joke, but his racist demagoguery is dangerous.”. «SFGate, Jul 15»
6
Pier slaying suspect's twisted road to S.F.
... didn't back away from the criticism of Trump, telling us not only that he is “a punk and a joke, but his racist demagoguery is dangerous.”. «San Francisco Chronicle, Jul 15»
7
End political hypocrisy in Miami Beach
Rather than demagoguery and efforts to witch-hunt political free speech, I propose these reforms: ▫ Require, just as the state does, that elected ... «Miami Herald, Jul 15»
8
EDUCATION: NOT A COMMODITY
So much for all this talk (more like demagoguery) about reforming the education system, boosting literacy rates, creating an environment of ... «The Daily Star, Jul 15»
9
EM insider: why blind faith won't save Brazil's IG status
... or the government is engaging in demagoguery, one of its most common and effective traits. Either way, the economy and/or fiscal accounts ... «http://citywire.pt, Jul 15»
10
The true story of the Soviet engineer who became a CIA spy and …
... was motivated by a mix of ideological opposition to the system around him and what he called its “impassible, hypocritical demagoguery,” as ... «Quartz, Jul 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Demagoguery [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/demagoguery>. Apr 2024 ».
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