ideologue Definition
ideo·logue (id′ē ə lôg′, ī′dē-)
noun
- a zealous exponent or advocate of a specified ideology
- a student of or expert in ideology
Etymology: Fr idéologue, back-form. < idéologie: see ideology
ideologue Usage Examples
Preposition: of
- movement: Ringleaders and ideologues of these movements will be held criminally responsible.
- right: The Act has not pleased the ideologues of the right.
Converse of object
- become: Determined to unmask the ideology of others, they have become ideologues themselves.
- scare: The notion of democracy beginning to emerge scares the ideologues, the totalitarians, those who want to impose their vision.
Adjective modifier
- neo-liberal: In the name of ' modernisation ' the neo-liberal ideologues want to take us back to a milieu that pre-dates the welfare state.
- right: Funnily enough, the right wing ideologues have now shed all their crocodile tears for the peoples of the former Soviet empire.
- radical: Giuseppe Mazzini, the radical ideologue of the Risorgimento, berated tourists for seeing only ancient grandeur where they should have seen suffering.
- conservative: Ideological bias: Economists are often seen as conservative ideologues, and critics discount their policy recommendations as products of zealotry rather than insight.
- free: Thatcher was not, on the whole, a free market ideologue - and when she became one, things fell apart.
- more: The party's more vehement ideologues claim God as its own.
Noun used with modifier
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