Meaning of propaganda in English

propaganda

mainly disapproving

/ˌprɒp.əˈɡæn.də/ us

/ˌprɑː.pəˈɡæn.də/

information, ideas, opinions, or images, often only giving one part of an argument, that are broadcast, published, or in some other way spread with the intention of influencing people's opinions:

political/wartime propaganda

At school we were fed communist/right-wing propaganda.

One official dismissed the ceasefire as a mere propaganda exercise.

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He was brought up on a diet of political propaganda from birth.
The whole nation was force-fed government propaganda about how well the country was doing.
It's now up to the government's propaganda machine to restore the prime minister's image.
The official propaganda machine went into overdrive when war broke out.
Her ideas have been shamelessly perverted to serve the president's propaganda campaign.

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propagandize

(Definition of propaganda from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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propaganda

noun [ U ]

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information or ideas that are spread by an organized group or government to influence people’s opinions, esp. by not giving all the facts or by secretly emphasizing only one way of looking at the facts

(Definition of propaganda from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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propaganda

noun [ U ]

disapproving

/ˌprɒpəˈɡændə/ us

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information, ideas, opinions, or images that give one part of an argument, which are broadcast, published, etc. in order to influence people's opinions:

a propaganda campaign/tool/exercise The report is just a political propaganda tool.

anti-government/anti-Western/anti-American propaganda In the cyber attack, the home pages of official websites were replaced with anti-government propaganda.

Critics called the book a blatant piece of propaganda.

(Definition of propaganda from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of propaganda

propaganda

Researchers could be misled by the publications of the first category because they were usually censored by the government to fit its propaganda purposes.

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The impact of all this propaganda on her students is hard to gauge.

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Such propaganda was significant at the time, since papal reform would soon be trying to damage regal imagery.

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It was not even endowed with enough funds to support an international propaganda campaign.

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The committee's motivation for ardently defending a hereditarian explanation of mental defect arose from politics and propaganda.

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If not yet pieces of deliberate propaganda, they should nonetheless be used with caution in reconstructing events in the churches of the region.

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And of course, the messages transmitted could not be simply condemned as propaganda.

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This was to be done through the use of propaganda, monetary reward or offers of territory.

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She raised the art of public propaganda to new heights.

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By the middle forties it began to be recognized that propaganda, instruction and voluntary acceptance of the new methods were inadequate.

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The cornerstone of this propaganda was the publication over the following three years of no fewer than twenty treatises concerning the merits of the colony.

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Scholars have examined the brinkmanship between intellectuals and the regime: how intellectuals reacted to the regime's propaganda and the regime dealt with the intellectuals' reaction.

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While its efforts could never be systematic, there were certain varieties of radical propaganda that drew considerably more attention from it than others.

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These tribally based assemblies, while of some propaganda value, could, of course, never offer more than a mirage of legislative power.

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His opening claim that historians have been far too little conscious of the important impact of the stadholderking's published propaganda is certainly justified.

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communist propaganda

There was a substantial contrast between the line of communist propaganda, which preached fraternity between peoples, and the reality of relations stamped with paranoia.

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effective propaganda

Songs were thus deployed as effective propaganda material on every front.

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false propaganda

The false propaganda will not pay.

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