scaremongering
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- noun
- /ˈskɛrˌmʌŋɡərɪŋ/
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alarmismo
- The scaremongering about the new health crisis made people panic unnecessarily.
- anti-scaremongering
Examples
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I write because deficit scaremongering is not morally right or based on any sound foundation.
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Pandering can set parts of the base at cross purposes, while scaremongering has to be credible to be effective.
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Of course, the scaremongering works for a while.
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Any talk otherwise is simply social science scaremongering.
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It'll give them four more years of scaremongering for cash.
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The malfeasants need to stop their scaremongering, and all reasonable people need to speak up against them.
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I am angry, very angry that people such as Gore should use such scaremongering to line their own pockets.
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It's political scaremongering.
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There's a difference between erring on the side of caution and scaremongering.
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For many economists, the current wave of automation anxiety amounts to misguided scaremongering by modern-day Luddites.
Academic text (2018)
Synonyms
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Information spread on purpose to many people to help some people or hurt others
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Trying to make people afraid to change their views or actions
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Making dangers seem worse than they are to make people worried for no reason
Saying the future will be bad to make people worried
False or incomplete information spread on purpose to make people believe something untrue
A practice of spreading biased information to make people accept certain ideas
Antonyms
How Alarming
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Scaremongering comes from the parts scare and monger, where monger means 'seller' as in fishmonger, so the noun paints the picture of someone 'selling' fear and explains why it means the act of spreading fear on purpose.