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DEMAGOGUE (Gr. Srlµaywybs, from iyety, to lead, and Siµos, the people)

DEMAGOGUE (Gr. Srlµaywybs, from iyety, to See also:
LEAD
LEAD (pronounced iced)
lead, and Siµos, the See also:
PEOPLE
people) , a See also:

LEADER, BENJAMIN WILLIAMS (1831– )

leader of the popular as opposed to any other party . Being particularly used with an invidious sense of a See also:

mob leader or orator, one who for his own See also:

POLITICAL

political ends panders to the passions and prejudices of the See also:

PEOPLE

people, the word has come to mean an unprincipled agitator .

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