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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“It’s a uniform that’s given to her to create the propagandist view of goodness and solidify her as an icon,” said Tazewell.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 24, 2025
Ilya Ehrenburg, the Soviet writer and propagandist who was considered in Germany to be an inflammatory agitator, emerges in a more nuanced light.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2025
President Vladimir Putin, deputy head of the national security council Dmitry Medvedev, foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, Russian propagandist TV presenter Vladimir Solovyov and pro-Russian war commentators known as "Z-bloggers" are all cited.
From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2025
The Nazi propagandist George Sylvester Viereck, who agitated on behalf of Kaiser Wilhelm during World War I, had a publishing house called Flanders Hall that disseminated numerous isolationist works.
From Salon ● Mar. 29, 2024
Some theologians were not content with moral certainty: in 1689 the Presbyterian propagandist Richard Baxter discussed the concept of evidence at great length, and decided that the only sort of evidence that counted was Evidence-Perspicuity.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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