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

Lenin declared that “of all the arts the most important for us is the cinema,” and Eisenstein ranked high among the many directors urged to produce propagandist films.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 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

They included Hitler’s propagandist Joseph Goebbels, who wrote in his diary in 1924: “I believe in the inner, but not the factual, truth of The Protocols.”

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 17, 2024

That Carlson has evolved into a propagandist is not surprising.

From Salon • Feb. 23, 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