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say it: DEM-uh-gah-gur-ee
demagoguery is a noun meaning "impassioned appeals to the prejudices and emotions of the populace". It is pronounced /ˈdɛməˌɡɑɡɚi/ — DEM-uh-gah-gur-ee. It carries one recorded sense.
impassioned appeals to the prejudices and emotions of the populace
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for demagoguery come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.