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scaremonger

[ skair-mong-ger, -muhng- ]

noun

  1. a person who creates or spreads alarming news.


scaremonger

/ ˈɛəˌʌŋɡə /

noun

  1. a person who delights in spreading rumours of disaster
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Derived Forms

  • ˈˌDzԲԲ, noun
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Other 51Թ Forms

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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of scaremonger1

First recorded in 1885–90; scare + monger
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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.

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He insists she’s always condemned fascism - but hits out at what he calls "an obsession" with the term, which he claims is whipped up by the left to scaremonger before elections.

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It should matter that he went to the U.S.-Mexico border to scaremonger about immigrants, and that his companies face multiple lawsuits alleging horrible acts of racist discrimination.

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For this he was treated as a scaremonger, even a crank.

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May said he “did not want to be a scaremonger” and stressed that it was “very rare” for a dognapper to accost an owner while out on a walk with a dog.

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