mouthpiece
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5.1
- noun
- /ˈmaʊθˌpis/
:
portavoz
- You were simply the mouthpiece.
- a government mouthpiece
- a party mouthpiece
- serve as a mouthpiece
Now you're just a, you're just a mouthpiece for the state.
- Now you're just a, you're just a mouthpiece for the state.
- You're just Donald Trump's mouthpiece or whatever part the lies come out of.
- He at some point made a turn where he's just a mouthpiece for really, really dark interest.
- Trump himself, directly or via his mouthpieces, cannot leave it alone.
- So he's kind of playing this a little soft again, Fed mouthpiece.
- And what I loved was this idea of creating as opposed to being the mouthpiece of somebody else's creation.
- And and you know, you'll you'll see him presenting it through the mouthpiece of Torquatus, who is an Epicurean.
- But it would come out of this self-serving, privileged, entitled, grandiose mouthpiece.
- And I felt so disgusted and betrayed to have like, I'm like this mouthpiece for an ideology or like I thought that I do not actually agree with so.
Examples
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A mouthpiece for the mob.
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So now you're the mouthpiece for the show basically.
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I am not your mouthpiece.
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- Are you his mouthpiece?
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You're just a mouthpiece for an agenda that is hidden from us.
Fiction book (1995) -
Not surprisingly, the papers became competing mouthpieces for the military regime.
Academic text (1993) -
"In a worst-case scenario, media outlets can become mouthpieces for propaganda rather than independent sources of news.
Academic text (2005) -
She tends to use her characters as mouthpieces for philosophies on love and life.
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And the Xinhua News Agency, which had been China's mouthpiece in Hong Kong, abolished the position of spokesman.
Academic text (1999) -
As a politician's mouthpiece, she often delivered messages that resonated with the community.
Synonyms
498
3.1
A man who officially speaks for a group or organization
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3.5
A person who speaks for a group or company to the public
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3.0
A woman who speaks for a group or organization
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4.2
A person who speaks for a group in public
A person who speaks for someone or a group
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Mouthpiece comes from mouth and piece, where mouth stands for speaking and piece means 'part'. By this image it became someone who is the 'speaking part' for others, so a mouthpiece is a person or group that speaks on behalf of someone else.