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scaremonger en · NOUN

Etymology

From scare + monger.

Meanings

1. Someone who spreads worrying rumours or needlessly alarms people.
   • I have refrained from giving actual names and dates, for obvious reasons, and have therefore been compelled, even at the risk of being again denounced as a scaremonger, to present the facts in the form of fiction—fiction which, I trust, will point its own patriotic moral. 1909, William Le Queux, Spies of the Kaiser:

Forms

Deriveds

scaremongery · scaremongerer

Synonyms

panicmonger · fearmonger · alarmist

Translations (18)

uk паніке́р (alarmist — see also alarmist) · ru паникёр (alarmist — see also alarmist) · uk паніке́рка (alarmist — see also alarmist) · de Panikmacher (alarmist — see also alarmist) · pl panikarz (alarmist — see also alarmist) · de Angstmacherin (alarmist — see also alarmist) · hu vészmadár (alarmist — see also alarmist) · ro alarmist (alarmist — see also alarmist) · de Angstmacher (alarmist — see also alarmist) · pl panikarka (alarmist — see also alarmist) · hu rémhírterjesztő (alarmist — see also alarmist) · de Panikmacherin (alarmist — see also alarmist) · hu pánikkeltő (személy) (alarmist — see also alarmist) · bg паникьор (alarmist — see also alarmist) · fr alarmiste (alarmist — see also alarmist) · cs šiřitel(ka) poplašných zpráv (alarmist — see also alarmist) · hu rémhírt terjesztő (alarmist — see also alarmist) · fi pelon lietsoja (alarmist — see also alarmist)

scaremonger en · VERB

Etymology

From scare + monger.

Meanings

1. To spread worrying rumours.
   • If no new cases come from the Buff Club exposure site, it will be hard to believe politicians scaremongering that the delta variant is so infectious that all you have to do is walk past an infected person to get it. 2021 July 2, The NT News, Darwin, page 23, column 2:
   • We're not scaremongering / This is really happening, happening 2000, “Idioteque”, in Kid A, performed by Radiohead:

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