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Lügenpresse

Lügenpresse noun: lamestream media.

Noun

Lügenpresse

  1. (US, derogatory) lamestream media
    • When a video of two Donald Trump supporters shouting “Lügenpresse” (lying press) started to circulate Sunday, viewers from Germany soon noted its explosive nature. The defamatory word was most frequently used in Nazi Germany.[2016 October 24, Rick Noack, “The ugly history of ‘Lügenpresse,’ a Nazi slur shouted at a Trump rally”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, archived from the original on 13 Dec 2016
    • After 1945 West Germans wisely shunned the word. The East Germans were less inhibited: it was now the West German media that became the capitalist and fascist Lügenpresse.2016 November 24, “America’s alt-right learns to speak Nazi: “Lügenpresse””, in The Economist, archived from the original on 18 Nov 2020

Synonyms of Lügenpresse

Origin of Lügenpresse

Unadapted borrowing from German Lügenpresse (“lying press”).

Questions about Lügenpresse

What does Lügenpresse mean?
Lügenpresse means lamestream media.
What part of speech is Lügenpresse?
Lügenpresse is a noun.

Words near Lügenpresse in the dictionary

  1. Lüderitz
  2. Lüders band
  3. Lüders bands
  4. Lüders' line
  5. Lüeyang
  6. Lügenpresse
  7. Lüliang
  8. Lüneburg
  9. Lünen
  10. Lüscher
  11. Lüscher test

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