scaremonger
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- noun
- /ˈskɛrˌmʌŋɡər/
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alarmista
- Many people dismissed her as a scaremonger after she repeatedly warned about the supposed dangers of the vaccine without any credible evidence.
And, and it's I, I was just thinking the other week, you know, when I see some scaremonger going, oh, the robots are coming.
- And, and it's I, I was just thinking the other week, you know, when I see some scaremonger going, oh, the robots are coming.
Examples
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And oh yeah, peak oil is not on the horizon in the USA despite all of the scaremongers who say it is.
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Here's a prime reason why I don't take these scaremongers seriously.
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The scaremongers were far, far too sure of themselves.
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I'm not trying to be a scaremonger; I'm really not, but look at the Arab countries.
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That means all Obama can do at this point is pander and scaremonger.
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Forgive me if I speak bluntly, but your kind of scaremonger reporting is the kind of behavior that brings the media into bad repute.
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The scaremongers assume Medicare spending grows much faster than GDP.
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That requires us to keep stating the science and exposing the malpractices of the scaremongers.
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The community criticized the local official for being a scaremonger by spreading false information about the potential dangers of a new school.
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During the debate, the politician was accused of acting as a scaremonger after he exaggeratingly claimed that crime rates would rise if the new law wasn't passed.
Synonyms
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A person who makes dangers seem bigger than they are
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Scaremonger is made of scare and monger, where monger means 'seller' or 'dealer', as in fishmonger or warmonger. So a scaremonger is someone who 'sells' fear by spreading frightening stories or rumors.