Obviously the use is pejorative here and "cult" is the only word for "sect led by disingenuous person taking advantage of a bunch of people". But "cult" is a v

Obviously the use is pejorative here and "cult" is the only word for "sect led by disingenuous person taking advantage of a bunch of people". But "cult" is a very overloaded word. I'm a bit leery of using the first sentence of a wikipedia article as a dictionary definition with no alternatives. I'm used to "cult" meaning "dangerous sect", but also just "new religion", "tiny religion", or "overly specific religion". e.g. calling early Christianity a Jewish cult or talking about the Greek Cult of Athena