单词 | scaremonger |
释义 | scaremongern. One who occupies himself in spreading alarming reports; an alarmist. Hence as v. intransitive, to spread alarming reports; ˈscaremongering n. the action of a scaremonger; the spreading of alarming reports; also as adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > causing apprehension or alarm > [noun] > alarm > persistent tendency to raise alarm needlessly > one who is addicted to raising alarms alarmist1792 terrorist1795 scaremonger1888 the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > causing apprehension or alarm > [adjective] > alarming > spreading alarming reports alarmist1794 scaremongering1907 the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > causing apprehension or alarm > [noun] > alarm > something that alarms > spreading of alarming reports scaremongering1907 the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > causing apprehension or alarm > give the alarm [verb (intransitive)] > spread alarming reports scaremonger1976 1888 Pall Mall Gaz. 23 May 4/1 Neither the scaremongers nor the peacemongers will feel any security whatever that the Cabinet is taking the country into its confidence. 1907 Standard 25 Nov. 6/6 To dismiss as ‘scaremongering’, and the like, criticism founded upon facts of common knowledge. 1966 New Statesman 14 Jan. 38/3 The new Home Secretary, Roy Jenkins, commented on TV that the Express story was ‘premature and slightly scaremongering’. 1976 ‘D. Halliday’ Dolly & Nanny Bird ii. 28 You scaremongered all the way through. You created panic. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1888 |
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