Example sentences for: demagoguery

How can you use “demagoguery” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Primary Colors rejects the smarmy populist demagoguery of Mr. Smith Goes to Washington . Instead, it shows how politics is about choosing between imperfect, morally compromising options.

  • What I noticed about Forbes' performance tonight was that it was exactly the same as every other Forbes performance--thoroughly dishonest, numbingly repetitive, and increasingly obnoxious in its gratuitous and ineffectual anti-Washington demagoguery.

  • Milosevic's demagoguery over Kosovo helped convince the Croatians, Slovenians, and Bosnians that they could no longer deal with Serbia.

  • Therapeutic laws become props for rhetoric that might be called demagoguery, except that it disgraces the memories of Joe McCarthy and Huey Long and the ambitions of Pat Buchanan to call Clinton a demagogue.

  • Cheap Republican partisanship would bring out the worst in the Democrats, encouraging more symbolic "therapeutic legislation" (see my colleague Jack Shafer's "Flame Posies" column) and demagoguery intended to keep old people in a Republican-hating frenzy.


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