Other Words from agitprop

agitprop adjective

agitprop theater agitprop films/songs/posters an agitprop campaign Never has the Kremlin's agitprop mill cooed more seductively … — Richard Poe

Examples of agitprop in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Establishment eyebrows arched over a streaming radio station in reception and the agitprop collage on the ceiling of a library-lounge furnished with Kilim rugs and books on Eames furniture and environmental justice. — Andrew Nelson, WSJ, 8 Mar. 2022 Last Friday night, then, the delegations marched into Beijing’s arena of agitprop, and the rebels stayed behind the scenes. — Matt Sullivan, Rolling Stone, 11 Feb. 2022 But as a solution to the league’s persistent optics problem, the NFL on Nick is like a spoonful of agitprop, coating professional football in sugar and slime. — Jake Nevins, The Atlantic, 7 Feb. 2022 But then the show became a strident piece of agitprop that strained credulity. — Omid Khazani And Henry Chu, Los Angeles Times, 18 Nov. 2021 His tendency to explain it through leftist politics is the same inclination that infects recent inferior literary agitprop such as Between the World and Me, The Underground Railroad, and Citizen: An American Lyric. — Armond White, National Review, 12 Nov. 2021 But beyond the hyperbole and agitprop expected from the likes of such NGOs, even seasoned observers of oil markets seem to have taken to media-lynching the Saudis. — Tilak Doshi, Forbes, 11 Nov. 2021 In front of a wall filled with agitprop posters of Malcolm X, Mao Zedong, and Puerto Rican nationalist Lolita Lebrón, doctors stuck tiny needles into the ears of a woman going through heroin withdrawal. — Valeria Ricciulli, Curbed, 25 Oct. 2021 This modern retelling of the Greek myth of Orpheus — who travels to hell to retrieve his beloved Eurydice — seemed too much like agitprop in 2019. — Washington Post, 16 Oct. 2021 See More

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History and Etymology for agitprop

borrowed from Russian Agitprop, shortened from Agitacionnopropagandistskij otdel "Agitation-Propaganda Section (of the Central Committee, or a local committee, of the Communist Party)"; later used for the head of such a section, or in compound names of political education organs, as agitpropbrigada "agitation-propaganda brigade"

Note: Russian agitpróp was probably first used in the names of state organs, then generalized as a shortening of agitatsiya i propaganda "agitation and propaganda," though the chronology is uncertain. In the latter sense well-known in Russian at least from the time of Vladimir Mayakovsky's poem Vo ves' golos (1928-30), containing the line "i mne agitprop v zubakh navyaz" ("and I was sick and tired of agitprop," literally, "and agitprop stuck in my teeth").

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