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Definition of Rabble-rouser
1. Noun. A political leader who seeks support by appealing to popular passions and prejudices.
Definition of Rabble-rouser
1. Noun. A person who tries to stir up masses of people for political action by appealing to their emotions rather than their reason. A demagogue. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rabble-rouser
Literary usage of Rabble-rouser
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"rabble-rouser. A demagogue. Sydney Smith in 1802 uses the phrase ... surpasses the
munificent promises of a genuine rabble-rouser, just before an election. ..."
2. Leon Abbett's New Jersey: The Emergence of the Modern Governorby Richard A. Hogarty by Richard A. Hogarty (2001)
"But pejorative words like populism, demagogue, and rabble-rouser were used more
to distort and discredit rather than to explain and clarify. ..."
3. Leon Abbett's New Jersey: The Emergence of the Modern Governorby Richard A. Hogarty by Richard A. Hogarty (2001)
"They saw him as a rabble-rouser, a power-hungry politician, ... But pejorative
words like populism, demagogue, and rabble-rouser were used more to distort ..."
4. The German Socialist Party: Champion of the First Republic, 1918-1933 by William Harvey Maehl (1986)
"... revisions to the treaty, which would enable German democracy to survive.133 A
shrewd politician, affable and prudent, and in no sense a rabble-rouser, ..."
5. The German Socialist Party: Champion of the First Republic, 1918-1933 by William Harvey Maehl (1986)
"... revisions to the treaty, which would enable German democracy to survive.185 A
shrewd politician, affable and prudent, and in no sense a rabble-rouser, ..."
6. The New Purchase: Or, Seven and a Half Years in the Far West by Baynard Rush Hall (1843)
"Get out! you scornful puppy ! and do not prate to me about religious cant; can
any thing come up to the cant and whine of a selfish, godless rabble- rouser ..."
7. The Old Order Changeth: A View of American Democracy by William Allen White (1910)
"Now, these words, however radical they may seem, are not from a rabble rouser.
They are from Mr. William Z. Ripley,1 professor of economics at Harvard ..."
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