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noun
Manipulation of a mob by use of inflammatory rhetoric, casting opprobrium, and by appeal to the lowest common denominator generally; extreme and wholly unscrupulous demagogy; the practice of an ochlagogue.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: rare, uncountable
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
From ochlo- (“mob”) + -agogy (“leading, leadership”), on the pattern of demagogy.
