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ideologue Definition

ideo·logue (idē ə lôg′, īdē-)

noun

  1. a zealous exponent or advocate of a specified ideology
  2. 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

  • market: Thatcher was not, on the whole, a free market ideologue - and when she became one, things fell apart.
  • wing: Funnily enough, the right wing ideologues have now shed all their crocodile tears for the peoples of the former Soviet empire.