ideologue

[ ahy-dee-uh-lawg, -log, id-ee-, ahy-dee- ]

noun

1. a person who zealously advocates an ideology.

Word History and Origins

Origin of ideologue¹

1805–15; < French idéologue; ideo-, -logue

Example Sentences

Yet Youngkin looks more formidable than McAuliffe’s 2013 foe, then-state Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, who was easy to cast as a right-wing ideologue and couldn’t keep pace with McAuliffe in fundraising.

From FiveThirtyEight

Overcoming the filibuster is a job for moderates, not ideologues.

From Washington Blade

On the other hand, Youngkin may be a more formidable foe than McAuliffe’s 2013 opponent, then-Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, who was easy to portray as a right-wing ideologue and trailed McAuliffe badly in fundraising.

From FiveThirtyEight

Free market ideologues will call the push for smarter regulation or more public investment “socialist.”

From Time

Whatever lightheartedness he may have had when he was younger is gone — we should see him above all as a committed ideologue.

From Vox

“And based on her tweets, she's not an ideologue, or one of these crazy celebrity left-wingers,” Hosenball said.

From The Daily Beast

I warmed to him immediately—it was impossible not to—unless you are a demented ideologue who has lost normal human reactions.

From The Daily Beast

Between a secular moralist and an ideologue, there is a softer, more human middle that Soyinka occupies.

From The Daily Beast

He was an incendiary, anti-Semitic ideologue whose silencing poses no threat to real freedom of speech.

From The Daily Beast

And even when a non-ideologue emerges on the GOP side, he or she often does so bloodied from the primary.

From The Daily Beast