propagandist

From propaganda +‎ -ist, after French propagandiste.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /pɹɒpəˈɡandɪst/

propagandist (plural propagandists)

1. A person who disseminates propaganda. [from 18th c.]
   • 1910, The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record, volume 14, page 31:

     Every country has been officially invited by the Belgian Government to send delegates to the International Congress of Agricultural Associations, which will take pace at Brussels in September, 1910. In most countries propagandist committees have been formed in connection with this Congress.

   • 2021, Otto English, Fake History, page 261:

     It's Alexander the Great who everyone remembers and much of that is down to his and his propagandists' genius.

propagandist (comparative more propagandist, superlative most propagandist)

1. Consisting of or spreading propaganda. [from 19th c.]

   Synonym: propagandistic

   • 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 87:

     Of course many of these accounts were propagandist in intention and designed for an unsophisticated audience.

   • 1985 April 13, Sean Herhily, “Anti-Censorship Forum”, in Gay Community News, page 10:

     In another comment from the audience, one woman raised what is perhaps the anti-pornography movement's strongest point. "There's a strain of pornography which is incredibly propagandist against women," she said.

• strappadoing

Borrowed from French propagandiste. By surface analysis, propagandă +‎ -ist.

propagandist m (plural propagandiști)

1. propagandist