rabble-rouser
noun
rab·ble-rous·er
ˈra-bəl-ˌrau̇-zər 
: one that stirs up the masses of the people (as to hatred or violence) : demagogue
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Examples of rabble-rouser in a Sentence
rabble-rousers inciting hungry people in breadlines to demand social justice
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Increasingly, Europe’s centrist figureheads are dropping their once-high-minded rhetoric on irregular migration, reaching instead for positions that were previously the preserve of the continent’s populist rabble-rousers.
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Rob Picheta, CNN, 20 Oct. 2024
Techno—once the music of Black futurists in Detroit, then countercultural rabble-rousers in post-reunification Berlin—is today the stuff of TikTok memes and arguably more popular than ever before.
—Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork, 11 Oct. 2024
As mayor, Baraka still talks like a rabble-rouser, at least some of the time.
—Kelefa Sanneh, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2024
They’re not all necessarily designed as rabble-rousers, but a a lot of them are.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 27 Sep. 2024
But the storyline fits his own conversion from a rabble-rouser to a married man, and the song overall meets his standards.
—Tom Roland, Billboard, 18 Sep. 2024
That honor falls to Irish rabble-rousers Kneecap (7 p.m. Sept. 27 at Concord Music Hall, 2047 N. Milwaukee Ave.; concordmusichall.com), stars of the recent comedic biopic of the same name.
—Bob Gendron, Chicago Tribune, 4 Sep. 2024
The ensemble includes 30 actors onstage and many more on video, who appear fleetingly as spirits, royal subjects or rabble-rousers.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2024
Bobby Nelsen Divest tuition Manhattan: Private entities, like Columbia University, need to divest themselves — of hypocritical, troublemaking rabble-rousers.
—Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 2 May 2024
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Rob Picheta, CNN, 20 Oct. 2024
Techno—once the music of Black futurists in Detroit, then countercultural rabble-rousers in post-reunification Berlin—is today the stuff of TikTok memes and arguably more popular than ever before.
—Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork, 11 Oct. 2024
As mayor, Baraka still talks like a rabble-rouser, at least some of the time.
—Kelefa Sanneh, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2024
They’re not all necessarily designed as rabble-rousers, but a a lot of them are.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 27 Sep. 2024
But the storyline fits his own conversion from a rabble-rouser to a married man, and the song overall meets his standards.
—Tom Roland, Billboard, 18 Sep. 2024
That honor falls to Irish rabble-rousers Kneecap (7 p.m. Sept. 27 at Concord Music Hall, 2047 N. Milwaukee Ave.; concordmusichall.com), stars of the recent comedic biopic of the same name.
—Bob Gendron, Chicago Tribune, 4 Sep. 2024
The ensemble includes 30 actors onstage and many more on video, who appear fleetingly as spirits, royal subjects or rabble-rousers.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2024
Bobby Nelsen Divest tuition Manhattan: Private entities, like Columbia University, need to divest themselves — of hypocritical, troublemaking rabble-rousers.
—Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 2 May 2024
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