Dictionary

propagandist en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /pɹɒpəˈɡandɪst/ (UK)
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From propaganda + -ist, after French propagandiste.

Meanings

1. Consisting of or spreading propaganda.
   • In another comment from the audience, one woman raised what is perhaps the anti-pornography movement's strongest point. "There's a strain of pornography which is incredibly propagandist against women," she said. 1985 April 13, Sean Herhily, “Anti-Censorship Forum”, in Gay Community News, page 10:
   • Of course many of these accounts were propagandist in intention and designed for an unsophisticated audience. 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 87:

Forms

Synonyms

propagandistic

propagandist en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /pɹɒpəˈɡandɪst/ (UK)
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From propaganda + -ist, after French propagandiste.

Meanings

1. A person who disseminates propaganda.
   • "Astroturfers and propagandists tend to attack and controversialize the news organizations, personalities and people surrounding an issue rather than sticking to the facts." 2015, Kevin Barry, Vaccine Whistleblower: Exposing Autism Research Fraud at the CDC:
   • Every country has been officially invited by the Belgian Government to send delegates to the International Congress of Agricultural Associations, which will take pace at Brussels in September, 1910. In most countries propagandist committees have been formed in connection with this Congress. 1910, The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record, volume 14, page 31:
   • It's Alexander the Great who everyone remembers and much of that is down to his and his propagandists' genius. 2021, Otto English, Fake History, page 261:

Forms

Deriveds

counterpropagandist · antipropagandist

Translations (79)

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