propagandist

American  

[prop-uh-gan-dist] / ˌprɒp əˈgæn dɪst /

noun

1. a person involved in producing or spreading propaganda.

2. a member or agent of a propaganda.

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adjective

1. Also propagandistic. pertaining to propaganda or propagandists.

Other Word Forms

• nonpropagandist
  noun
• propagandism
  noun
• propagandistically
  adverb
• semipropagandist
  adjective
• unpropagandistic
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of propagandist

First recorded in 1790–1800; propagand(a) + -ist

Example Sentences

Soviet Propagandist Ilya Ehrenburg, who had led the cheering section for Gide, now denounced him as a "wicked old man."

From Time Magazine Archive

Rugged Dictator Josef Stalin and facile Propagandist Nikolai Bukharin are striving and succeeding with a program of discrediting Trotsky in Russia.

From Time Magazine Archive

Russian Propagandist Ilya Ehrenburg announced that the Russians are "sick and tired of the cold war" and want to end it.

From Time Magazine Archive

Other entries deal with the 1940 British retreat at Dunkirk and the amorous activities of Chief Propagandist Josef Goebbels.

From Time Magazine Archive

Side by side with this public organisation, Most formed a secret "Propagandist Club," to carry on an international revolutionary agitation and to prepare directly for the general revolution which Most thought was near at hand.

From Anarchism A Criticism and History of the Anarchist Theory by Zenker, Ernst Viktor