propaganda Definition
propa·ganda (präp′ə gan′də; also, for 2 & 3 prō′pə-)
noun
- R.C.Ch. a committee of cardinals, the Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith, in charge of the foreign missions
- any systematic, widespread dissemination or promotion of particular ideas, doctrines, practices, etc. to further one's own cause or to damage an opposing one
- ideas, doctrines, or allegations so spread: now often used disparagingly to connote deception or distortion
Etymology: ModL, short for congregatio de propaganda fide, congregation for propagating the faith: see propagate
propaganda Synonyms
propaganda
n.
propaganda Usage Examples
Preposition: of
deed: Words had failed, action - 'the propaganda of the deed ' was the only option left in the eyes of some Muslims.
Converse of object
- disseminate: Since 9/11 the websites have been the main links to disseminate propaganda and information.
- counter: Fascists can't better counter the malicious propaganda to destroy friendly relations with Germany than by using this fact.
- spread: It tells that Kaunitz, with whom Candy was imprisoned in South Africa, is spreading black propaganda about English tactics in South Africa.
- broadcast: I tune my radio and TV scale like crazy, but all the stations broadcast only propaganda, and very little of information.
- distribute: This program is family entertainment and should not be used to distribute propaganda for the gay lobby.
Adjective modifier
- Nazi: Nazi propaganda greatly exaggerated stories of attacks on the German minority.
- anti-Christian: They report that a group of men dressed in military uniform landed in Lombok just before the violence, disseminating anti-Christian propaganda.
- anti-communist: The Malayan Emergency illustrates how the British government grappled with the issue of political terminology within the broader context of anti-communist propaganda.
- Zionist: This needs to be asserted over against Zionist propaganda.
- communist: Communist propaganda told people that everything in the West was bad.
- blatant: It was possibly the most one-sided piece of blatant propaganda that has ever been transmitted in Britain in time of peace.
Modifies a noun
- coup: Clearly a propaganda coup, similar to Lord Haw Haw, the Nazis planned to expand their use of Amery.
- offensive: Tony Blair then launched on a propaganda offensive of his own.
- poster: During the war there was a propaganda poster that said ' careless talk costs lives ' .
- onslaught: Undoubtedly there will be a propaganda onslaught, financed by the tax payer, to persuade the British people to change their minds.
- ploy: I am not anybody's propaganda ploy, well except my own.
- rag: At least it isn't EU Student Association propaganda rag Hype.
Noun used with modifier
- separatist: Some of them have been threatened with prosecution for ' ' separatist propaganda, ' ' which carries a three-year prison term.
- wartime: In 1917, Grosz joined with John Heartfield in protesting about the German wartime propaganda campaign against the allies.
Browse dictionary entries near propaganda
- ‹ propagable
- ‹ propaedeutic
- ‹ prop root
- ‹ prop
- ‹ proofread
- ‹ -proof
- ‹ proof spirit
- ‹ proof set
- ‹ proof of loss
- ‹ proof
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