mouthpiece
noun
mouth·piece
ˈmau̇th-ˌpēs 
Synonyms
Examples of mouthpiece in a Sentence
the mouthpiece of a trumpet
He's been acting as a mouthpiece for the government on questions of foreign policy.
The company has hired an attorney as a mouthpiece to answer its critics.
Recent Examples on the Web
One of his roles while based in Tunis was to edit a newspaper, the FLN’s mouthpiece, El Moudjahid.
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Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 28 Mar. 2024
Margarita Simonyan, head of the Russia Today network and a Kremlin mouthpiece, even suggested - with no evidence at all - the ISIS gunmen are in fact Ukrainian.
—Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 23 Mar. 2024
American Cinematographer Magazine, the society’s mouthpiece, was founded in 1921 and was spreading the word to more than 40 countries by the 1950s.
—David Heuring, Variety, 3 Mar. 2024
Large sections of the press act as the mouthpiece of the ruling party for fear of losing government advertisements or facing vindictive tax raids.
—Ramachandra Guha, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024
Many of the popular show’s viewers probably sympathized with him, especially since his younger family members, who were the show’s moral mouthpieces, were so dull.
—Christian Schneider, National Review, 21 Dec. 2023
Since the fall of 2021, a few months before the invasion, Mikhailov has been the FSB’s unofficial mouthpiece for the Russian media, promoting the agency’s view of events in Ukraine.
—Andrei Soldatov, Foreign Affairs, 27 Dec. 2023
The timing coincides with Donald Trump’s arrival on the national political scene, seizing control of the right-wing media machine and refashioning it into his personal propaganda mouthpiece that pollutes the country’s information environment.
—Oliver Darcy, CNN, 1 Feb. 2024
The conflict carried on in social media, with Salazar accusing Lee of trying to disrupt the hearing and calling her a communist sympathizer and a mouthpiece for the Cuban regime.
—Suzanne Gamboa, NBC News, 19 Jan. 2024
Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 28 Mar. 2024
Margarita Simonyan, head of the Russia Today network and a Kremlin mouthpiece, even suggested - with no evidence at all - the ISIS gunmen are in fact Ukrainian.
—Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 23 Mar. 2024
American Cinematographer Magazine, the society’s mouthpiece, was founded in 1921 and was spreading the word to more than 40 countries by the 1950s.
—David Heuring, Variety, 3 Mar. 2024
Large sections of the press act as the mouthpiece of the ruling party for fear of losing government advertisements or facing vindictive tax raids.
—Ramachandra Guha, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024
Many of the popular show’s viewers probably sympathized with him, especially since his younger family members, who were the show’s moral mouthpieces, were so dull.
—Christian Schneider, National Review, 21 Dec. 2023
Since the fall of 2021, a few months before the invasion, Mikhailov has been the FSB’s unofficial mouthpiece for the Russian media, promoting the agency’s view of events in Ukraine.
—Andrei Soldatov, Foreign Affairs, 27 Dec. 2023
The timing coincides with Donald Trump’s arrival on the national political scene, seizing control of the right-wing media machine and refashioning it into his personal propaganda mouthpiece that pollutes the country’s information environment.
—Oliver Darcy, CNN, 1 Feb. 2024
The conflict carried on in social media, with Salazar accusing Lee of trying to disrupt the hearing and calling her a communist sympathizer and a mouthpiece for the Cuban regime.
—Suzanne Gamboa, NBC News, 19 Jan. 2024
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“Mouthpiece.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mouthpiece. Accessed 23 Apr. 2024.
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mouthpiece
noun
mouth·piece
-ˌpēs
1
: the part put to, between, or near the lips
the mouthpiece of a trumpet
the mouthpiece of a telephone
2
: someone who expresses another person's ideas : spokesperson
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