Unscrupulous vs Ochlagogy - What's the difference?
unscrupulous | ochlagogy |
(rare) 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.
* 1962 : Cecil John Ellington and A. G. Russell of the Classical Association (Great Britain), Greece and Rome , “Peripatos: The Athenian Philosophical Scene?—?II”,
As an adjective unscrupulous
is without scruples; immoral.As a noun ochlagogy is
(rare) 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.ochlagogy
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(-)page 21(The Clarendon Press)
- One can imagine what Epicurus would have thought of the ochlagogy of Herodes Atticus and his contemporaries, and the noisy demonstrations which it evoked.
