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Populist Definition

☆ Popu·list (päp′yə list)

noun

  1. a member of a U.S. political party (Populist party or People's party, 1891-1904) advocating free coinage of gold and silver, public ownership of utilities, an income tax, and support of labor and agriculture
  2. any person, esp. a politician or political leader, who claims to represent the interests, views, or tastes of the common people, particularly as distinct from those of the rich or powerful: often applied to someone with demagogic tendencies

Etymology: < L populus, people + -ist

adjective

  1. of the Populist party
    1. of or characteristic of a populist
    2. of or for the common people

Populist Related Forms
Pop′u·lism′ noun or pop′u·lism′
Populist Usage Examples

Adjective modifier

  • right-wing: Enlargement issues have to be kept away from right-wing populists such as Jörg Haider.
  • Russian: Studies in the Social Philosophy of the Russian Populists ( 1969 ) 64.
  • same: Data mining help starts a fire millionthe same populist into this category.
  • new: The tragic thing is that the only serious political force which is today ' alive ' is the new populist Right.

Modifies a noun

  • rhetoric: It is vital to avoid surrendering to populist rhetoric.
  • nationalism: Modern populist nationalism must be a movement which aims to reduce the burden of taxation on the vast majority of the workforce.
  • sentiment: There is no populist sentiment to appease, no Daily Mail clamor.
  • politician: The next country to fall to a strongly anti-American populist politician could be Peru.
  • appeal: Its populist appeal has no doubt contributed to the political ' success ' of the present regime.

Modifying Another Word

  • unashamedly: This is an unashamedly populist book, written to bring his notions of the digital revolution to a mass audience.
  • too: They helped increase the BNP vote by stirring race, but they were too populist for the people.
  • not: We need policy which is principled, not populist.
  • shamelessly: It revels in its schmaltz and is shamelessly populist.
  • somewhat: Comments about the book stock Selection is somewhat populist at the expense of classics.
  • largely: Relaxed credit is a largely populist measure that just postpones the day of reckoning.

Used with adjective complement

  • become: Television, too, has become radically more populist than it was even 20 years ago.