to propagandize
- verb
- /ˌprɒpəˈɡændaɪz/
- Literature
- The campaign aimed to propagandize the benefits of clean energy through social media.
Fox News, they're propagandizing their audience, prepping them for this, prepping them.
- Fox News, they're propagandizing their audience, prepping them for this, prepping them.
- And what he's doing right now is he is using the Oval Office to propagandize his power.
- Tucker Carlson, all the manosphere, all they're doing is propagandizing him.
- We were propagandized into avoiding off patent drugs that really did work.
- And then there was an act called the Smith Mont Act that makes it illegal for the CIA to propagandize Americans.
- My family propagandize milk to me to the point where I almost had a religious fervor belief in milk.
Examples
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Fox News, they're propagandizing their audience, prepping them for this, prepping them.
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If we don't, they will propagandize the failure on Republicans.
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You have every right to propagandize from the pulpit, and give us the same right to propagandize with books.
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Islamists used the moment to propagandize again that America was in bed with Israel.
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"What it also does is it propagandizes the people who are in the meeting.
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So they're able to propagandize and paint a certain picture.
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Daily we are propagandized more and more by the rising crime wave.
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The elite tend to pick the "low hanging fruit" when trying to propagandize their agenda.
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Firstly, the World Bank promotes and propagandizes corporatization to influence the authorities in developing countries.
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Public schools will continue to teach the myths of Marxism; TV news will continue to propagandize for Marxist politicians.
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Synonyms
To try to sell something forcefully, often illegal goods
Make someone believe something that is not true
To cause someone to change their opinion or decision
To promote something with exaggerated, flashy advertising to get attention
Make something seem better than it really is
To spread or encourage something bad, for example fear and rumors
To secretly say good things about someone or something because you are paid
Actively promote a product or idea to get people to use it
To make people feel afraid on purpose to change what they think or do
To try to make people support an idea or cause, often in politics
How Persuasive
- Literature
Surface Forms
Morphology
propagandize = propaganda (transparent) = propaganda + ize
The verb is formed by the productive suffix '-ize' added to the noun 'propaganda', yielding a predictable meaning 'to engage in propaganda'.
Etymology
Propagandize comes from propaganda, which comes from the Latin root propagare meaning 'to spread' and was first used like spreading plants or seeds. So to propagandize is to 'spread' ideas or information to influence people, often in a one-sided or misleading way.