Word.ws English Dictionary

black propaganda

black propaganda noun: false or unverified propaganda, especially appearing to originate from an enemy's own sources; disinformation.

Noun

black propaganda (uncountable)

  1. False or unverified propaganda, especially appearing to originate from an enemy's own sources; disinformation.
    • Masters at black propaganda, the Mongols saw to it that hair-raising tales of their barbarity were carried ahead of them as they advanced across Asia, devastating kingdom after kingdom, towards a quaking Europe.1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society, published 2010, page 13

Questions about black propaganda

What does black propaganda mean?
Black propaganda means false or unverified propaganda, especially appearing to originate from an enemy's own sources; disinformation.
What part of speech is black propaganda?
Black propaganda is a noun.

Words near black propaganda in the dictionary

  1. black powder
  2. black power
  3. black prince
  4. black princes
  5. black privilege
  6. black propaganda
  7. black pudding
  8. black puddings
  9. black quahog
  10. black quahogs
  11. black quarter

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: black propaganda (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “black propaganda.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/black_propaganda. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.