propagandist
Americannoun
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a person involved in producing or spreading propaganda.
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a member or agent of a propaganda.
adjective
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of propagandist
First recorded in 1790–1800; propagand(a) + -ist
Example Sentences
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Propagandists and demagogues use such strategies almost instinctively.
From Salon • Sep. 24, 2021
Propagandists in the 1950s and 1960s used to extensively display Mao Zedong's portraits at rallies and celebrations to whip up a personality cult around him and cultivate loyalty.
From Reuters • Aug. 19, 2021
Propagandists would occasionally attempt to imbue the worker with dignity, and from time to time, America would face a crisis that required it to treat workers with a modicum of humanity.
From Washington Post • Nov. 20, 2017
Propagandists for the Communist state spin a tale, most likely apocryphal, that the late leader Kim Jong Il was born there while his father was a guerrilla fighting the Japanese.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 6, 2017
It is said that the younger Omar, who was then a youth, was obliged to flee from the wrath of the Good Government Propagandists and to take abode in a distant city.
From The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Jr. by Irwin, Wallace
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