propagandist
pronunciation
How to pronounce propagandist in British English:
UK [ˌprɒpəˈgændɪst]
How to pronounce propagandist in American English:
US [ˌprɑpəˈgændɪst]
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- Noun:
- a person who disseminates messages calculated to assist some cause or some government
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- Adjective:
- of or relating to or characterized by propaganda
Word Origin
- propagandist (n.)
- 1797, from propaganda + -ist. Related: Propagandistic.
Example
- 1. Even a senior government propagandist has bolted .
- 2. But mr castro 's lasting success has been as a masterful propagandist .
- 3. She may be the greatest propagandist for bourgeois marriage that english literature has produced , yet she is never smug and her happy endings are tempered by wise realism .
- 4. This month has seen a series of high-profile defections : football players absconding at an away match in tanzania ; medical workers seeking refuge in sudan ; naval ratings escaping to yemen . Even a senior government propagandist has bolted .
- 5. Such demonstrations have no doubt a propagandist value for the nazi party . On the one hand they show that anti-semitism is a doctrine that can be put into effect , and on the other the attack on the big department stores is welcomed by the small shopkeepers , most of whom are nazis .