• They argue that the problem does not exist, or has been grossly exaggerated, and they call the reformers alarmists, fanatics, scaremongers, prophets of doom and so on.
• An intelligence expert even told Wilkinson: ‘Those of us who believed the threat was there were called alarmists and pessimists, but we called ourselves realists.’
• The Bush Administration itself, whether for reasons of politics or ignorance, has also given intellectual ground to alarmists in the climate change debate.

Synonyms

• MR MULHOLLAND, I found your particular brand of negative alarmist journalism quite entertaining when I first started reading your column.
• This, conceded the correspondent, ‘laid the ground for every conceivable rumour’, and contributed to alarmist reports in the Western media about the scale of the damage.
• For the less gullible among us, the administration's alarmist rhetoric in 2002 was a grim farce, and the unfolding of the nightmare we see today was a foregone conclusion.