Propaganda

Quick meaning: Propaganda is a noun meaning (as a neutral word dated) Agitation, publicity, public communication aimed at influencing an audience and furthering an agenda.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. (derogatory) Such communication specifically when it is biased, misleading, or provoking mainly emotional responses.
2. 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.

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.

Word Forms

• propagandas
• propagand

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include propagandize, publicize, publicise, publicity, publicist, advertise.

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