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

David’s genius as a narrator and propagandist was in choosing the most emotionally charged episode in a story and choreographing it to contrast the responses of the protagonists.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 29, 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

Nazi propagandist Wilhelm Beilstein wrote an article in 1939 explaining the true meaning of Christmas:

From Salon • Dec. 22, 2023

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