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Demagogic

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Of or pertaining to demagogy or a demagogue.

    "Politicians knew that the law [barring HIV-positive immigrants] would do nothing to stop the spread of AIDS, and that medical experts agreed the law would actually facilitate it. But politicians did know a cheap and demagogic way to "do something" about AIDS."

Adjective
  1. 1
    characteristic of or resembling a demagogue wordnet

Etymology

Borrowed from French démagogique, equivalent to demagogue + -ic.

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