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Shill vs Propagandist - What's the difference?

shill | propagandist |

As nouns the difference between shill and propagandist

is that shill is a person paid to endorse a product favourably, while pretending to be impartial while propagandist is a person who disseminates propaganda.

As a verb shill

is (pejorative) to promote or endorse in return for payment, especially dishonestly.

As an adjective propagandist is

consisting of or spreading propaganda.

shill

English

(wikipedia shill)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person paid to endorse a product favourably, while pretending to be impartial.
  • * 26 June 2014 , A.A Dowd, AV Club Paul Rudd and Amy Poehler spoof rom-com clichés in They Came Together [http://www.avclub.com/review/paul-rudd-and-amy-poehler-spoof-rom-com-cliches-th-206220]
  • You’ve Got Mail is certainly the basic model for the plot, which finds corporate candy shill Joel (Rudd) and indie-sweetshop owner Molly (Poehler) regaling their dinner companions with the very long, digressive story of how they met and fell in love.
  • * 1983 , , Prometheus Rising ,
  • Witnesses have testified that Jim Jones (like a few other professional faith-healers) used shills part of the time....
  • An accomplice at a confidence trick during an auction or gambling game.
  • * 1994 , , The Crossing ,
  • The pitchman swept his cane in a slow acceleration over the heads of the crowd and then suddenly pointed the silver cap toward Billy and the shill .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (pejorative) To promote or endorse in return for payment, especially dishonestly.
  • * 1996 , , The Demon-Haunted World ,
  • Today there are even commercials in which real scientists, some of considerable distinction, shill for corporations. They teach that scientists too will lie for money. As Tom Paine warned, inuring us to lies lays the groundwork for many other evils.
  • To put under cover; to sheal.
  • (UK, obsolete, dialect) To shell.
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    propagandist

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person who disseminates propaganda.
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Consisting of or spreading propaganda.
  • *1971 , , Religion and the Decline of Magic , Folio Society 2012, p. 87:
  • *:Of course many of these accounts were propagandist in intention and designed for an unsophisticated audience.