| 单词 | scare quotes |
| 释义 | scare quotesplural nouna pair of quotation marks used around a term or phrase to indicate that the writer does not think it is being used appropriately or that the writer is using it in a specialized sense: a “huge breakthrough” in the negotiations.Compare air quotes. Words nearby scare quotesscarecrow, scaredy-cat, scarehead, scaremonger, scare out of one's wits, scare quotes, scare up, scareware, scarf, scar-faced, Scarfe Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 British Dictionary definitions for scare quotesscare quotes pl nquotation marks placed around a word or phrase to indicate that it should not be taken literally or automatically accepted as true Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 |
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