scaremonger
Americannoun
noun
Other Word Forms
- scaremongering noun
Etymology
Origin of scaremonger
Example Sentences
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Yet the issue with weather influencers, Prof Angus notes, is their tendency to scaremonger, as social media weather forecaster Higgins Storm Chasing, also based in Townsville, has been criticised for.
From BBC • May 1, 2025
For this he was treated as a scaremonger, even a crank.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 7, 2022
He’s not an orthodox scaremonger, sending his camera gliding down dark hallways in search of the usual ghouls.
From New York Times • Jun. 7, 2018
I’m not making this speech because I want to moralise or scaremonger, but because I feel profoundly as a politician, and as a father, that the time for action has come.
From BusinessWeek • Jul. 22, 2013
All of these he knew were virtually sitting on the crater of a volcano, and he had often said so, only to be derided as a scaremonger.
From Forging the Blades A Tale of the Zulu Rebellion by Mitford, Bertram
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