Propaganda

/ˌpɹɒpəˈɡændə/ · noun

Meaning

(as a neutral word dated) Agitation, publicity, public communication aimed at influencing an audience and furthering an agenda..

Definitions by Sense

1. (as a neutral word dated) Agitation, publicity, public communication aimed at influencing an audience and furthering an agenda.
2. (derogatory) Such communication specifically when it is biased, misleading, or provoking mainly emotional responses.
3. plural of propagandum

Example Sentences

Near-synonym: public diplomacy (sometimes asserted to be synonymous)

Despite being biased and often untrue, propaganda material can be useful in OSINT analysis.

Meanwhile, with something like twenty-five million new mouths bawling for food every year, the supply problem became steadily worse, and after years of ineffective propaganda a couple of atrocious harvests had at last made the people aware of its urgency.

They established a government propaganda commission, called the Creel Commission, which succeeded, within six months, in turning a pacifist population into a hysterical, war-mongering population which wanted to destroy everything German, tear the Germans limb from limb, go to war and save the world.

In this metropolis that had a prewar population of almost a million, but where the city center now feels like an Orwellian ghost town of propaganda posters and armed patrols, perhaps no one feels more alone than those who still harbor pro-Ukrainian sentiments.

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Word Forms

• propagandas
• propagand

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