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populism /ˈpɒpjʊlɪz(ə)m /noun [mass noun]1Support for the concerns of ordinary people: it is clear that your populism identifies with the folks on the bottom of the ladder the Finance Minister performed a commendable balancing act, combining populism with prudence...- It is written in the fulminating language of angry populism.
- He garnered almost 5 per cent of the vote in 2000, a sign that prairie populism still flourishes here.
- There should be a special award these days for not writing at an elementary school reading level under the guise of populism.
1.1The quality of appealing to or being aimed at ordinary people: art museums did not gain bigger audiences through a new populism...- Copland's populism represented a voluntary retreat from hard-edged modernism in an attempt to reach a wider public at a time of economic hardship.
- He subsequently dropped much of the textural subtlety in favour of breathless Cuban and funk populism.
- The newspapers love abuse stories, and they love the mixture of celebrity and populism that marries so easily in the culture now.
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