- ideas or statements that may be false or present only one side of an argument that are used in order to gain support for a political leader, party, etc.
- enemy propaganda
- a propaganda campaign
Extra ExamplesTopics Politicsc1- He has been listening to his own propaganda for so long that he is in danger of believing it.
- Soviet propaganda against Fascism
- The Olympics were of great propaganda value to the regime.
- The film was made in 1938 for propaganda purposes.
- The papers were full of political propaganda about nationalization.
- The pirate radio station broadcast anti-government propaganda.
- the lies that were spewed out by the regime's propaganda machine
- This document is pure party propaganda.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- government
- official
- party
- …
- broadcast
- counter
- spread
- …
- battle
- campaign
- effort
- …
- somebody’s own propaganda
- propaganda about
- propaganda against
Word OriginItalian, from modern Latin congregatio de propaganda fide ‘congregation for propagation of the faith’, which was a committee of cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church responsible for foreign missions (founded in 1622). The current sense dates from the early 20th cent.
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