Meaning of propaganda in English:

noun

• 1mass noun Information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote a political cause or point of view.

  ‘he was charged with distributing enemy propaganda’

  More example sentences

  • ‘Of course, an evil regime will attempt to use our views for its propaganda.’
  • ‘Most blogs are a form of personal propaganda, stating views in an authoritative tone.’
  • ‘He then went on to use this view as propaganda to control people and make them feel what he was doing was right.’
  • ‘It makes me so mad that we often get propaganda and not news from the television and daily papers.’
  • ‘He is not misled by the xenophobic propaganda and can judge it on the merit of its source.’
  • ‘You have to be a lot better at propaganda if you want to make people listen to your views.’
  • ‘Science is the search for fact, not the publication of spurious propaganda.’
  • ‘The Prague story has now been publicly exposed as a fraudulent piece of war propaganda.’
  • ‘One of the first aims of propaganda is to dehumanize the enemy in the public mind.’
  • ‘This propaganda was drilled into American soldiers for more than a year before the war.’
  • ‘They set up strike committees, produced propaganda and even put on shows and political theatre.’
  • ‘The most popular arena for spreading false propaganda is the Internet.’
  • ‘Newspaper proprietors accepted the new controls on the altar of total war and co-operated in disseminating government propaganda.’
  • ‘The television screen greatly enhances the possibility of spreading the propaganda of the deed.’
  • ‘The internet became a powerful tool in countering the official propaganda.’
  • ‘Despite an almost complete lack of alternative sources of information, we did not believe the official propaganda.’
  • ‘Kingston residents are intelligent enough to recognise crude political propaganda when they see it.’
  • ‘More serious, however, was the ineffectiveness of official propaganda in favour of the war.’
  • ‘They were intended to conduct psychological warfare and distribute anticommunist propaganda.’
  • ‘America's wartime radio propaganda emphasised an increasingly corporate vision of America's future.’

  Synonyms

  information, promotion, advertising, advertisement, publicity, advocacy

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  1. 1.1The dissemination of propaganda as a political strategy.
     ‘the party's leaders believed that a long period of education and propaganda would be necessary’
     More example sentences

     • ‘This stands, as we shall see, in a long tradition of propaganda by deed.’
     • ‘The miners were no angels but the media was blatantly and cynically used as a propaganda machine for the government.’
     • ‘The third method is to set up a system of accountability for propaganda work.’
     • ‘The role of the government propaganda camps known as public schools cannot be discounted in all this.’
     • ‘Perhaps only a long period of education or propaganda could remove our abhorrence.’
     • ‘One part of what we have to do is contest reformism's ideas and practices, in direct argument and propaganda.’
     • ‘It is time our student funded newspaper practised true journalism and not propaganda.’
     • ‘It all looked terribly cool, the power of propaganda and marketing at work.’
     • ‘The Cold War may be over, but the intelligence-gathering and propaganda machines grind on.’
     • ‘The US media and politicians were quick to spot the propaganda potential of these victories.’
     • ‘The influence of advertisers is only one element of this propaganda system.’
     • ‘Removal of context is one of most persistent propaganda tactics around.’
     • ‘The Independent's source then shed additional light on the tactics of the government propaganda machine.’
     • ‘The media and the government started a fierce propaganda campaign to change this opinion.’
     • ‘What should have been a propaganda coup for Germany turned out to be the opposite.’
     • ‘To regard this as a propaganda coup is to misunderstand the sociopathic threat that confronts us.’

• 2

  (also Propaganda)

  A committee of cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church responsible for foreign missions, founded in 1622 by Pope Gregory XV.