scaremongering
Americannoun
adjective
Example Sentences
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"But no-one I've met through social media talking about baby loss has felt like it's scaremongering - it's felt informative, because sometimes you could help someone else realise some signs," she said.
From BBC ● Dec. 23, 2025
And while safety is at the core of such decisions, we should be cautious of scaremongering, says UniSA shark expert Dr Brianna Le Busque.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 14, 2023
In aggregate, spates of space-weather scaremongering are easy to predict because they’re usually tied to solar activity itself, which follows a roughly 11-year cycle.
From Scientific American ● Jan. 26, 2023
Ms. Meloni has tried to distance herself from what she calls those “nostalgic” elements of her party, and chalks the fears up to the usual electoral scaremongering.
From New York Times ● Sep. 24, 2022
But Mr. Punch, with many others, has no sympathy to spare for the sorrows of the headline artist deprived for the time being of his chief opportunity of scaremongering.
From Mr. Punch's History of the Great War by Charles L. (Charles Larcom) Graves
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