to monger
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7.7
- verb
- /ˈmʌŋɡər/
- The journalist tends to monger fear about political instability in her articles.
- fear-mongering
- scare-mongering
- hate-mongering
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Watch on YouTubeLike people like to fear monger because fear mongering sells.
- Like people like to fear monger because fear mongering sells.
- We fear monger the future and we over respect the past.
- So like, well, you're fear mongering though, I'd say yeah, yeah, definitely.
- Do you think that we, a lot of people like to fear monger that China and Russia together would fuck us up?
- And I'm like, are the left creating the very problem they claim to want to end by explicitly fear mongering around men?
- Hopefully I'm not fear mongering, but there's a sense in which there's the drums of war slowly starting to build with China.
Examples
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Like people like to fear monger because fear mongering sells.
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We fear monger the future and we over respect the past.
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So like, well, you're fear mongering though, I'd say yeah, yeah, definitely.
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Another group is just naysayers with no solution, just vague fear-mongering with little data.
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You use your fear-mongering ways to sway the masses to believe what you want.
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Instead, the EU puts 9 billion in the fear-mongering green NGOs.
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If it's possible to do that without a reactionary bias as well as without a fear-mongering bias, that would be awesome.
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Jim, you've listened too much to the fear-mongering talking points that keep our military-industrial complex going.
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"The Republican War on Women Hits the Rez" pointed out eight bits of GOP fear-mongering misinformation that are easily debunked.
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Some politicians monger unnecessary panic with exaggerated claims about the economy.
Synonyms
19
8.4
To cause people to start trouble or violence
6
9.1
To try to make many people believe false or one-sided information
2
8.4
To make people feel afraid on purpose to change what they think or do
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7.5
To spread exaggerated fear on purpose to make people worry
Compounds
How Much
- NSFW
75
7.7
- Formal
19
8.4
33
7.7
716
1.6
396
3.5
∞
1.0
Surface Forms
Etymology
Monger as a modern verb often means 'to spread' or 'promote' something harmful, like fear or rumours. This comes from the original idea of a seller, so to 'monger' fear is like trying to 'sell' that fear to people.