Showing results for fearmongering. Search instead for fashionmongering.

fearmongering

American

[feer-mahng-ger-ing] / ˈfɪərˌmɑŋ gər ɪŋ /

noun

the practice or strategy of trying to make people fearful or anxious as a means of manipulating them.

adjective

trying to make people fearful or anxious as a means of manipulating them.

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

See Examples For:

fearmongering

They have mastered the racket: The business of youth sports isn’t creating memories for kids, it’s fearmongering, and preying on the emotional and financial insecurities of the parents.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026

“These features are there to protect long-term investors from that fearmongering that can go on.”

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 24, 2026

Fiechter dismisses this as fearmongering, saying he is "certain that the EU will not allow this to happen", and arguing that the agreements with Switzerland are "entirely in the EU's own interest".

From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2026

Worse than the off-label prescribing is the fearmongering.

From Salon ● May 11, 2026

No one is more susceptible to an expert’s fearmongering than a parent.

From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt

Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023