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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
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.
We're not scaremongering / This is really happening, happening
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.
Use scaremonger when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Scaremonger means Someone who spreads worrying rumours or needlessly alarms people..
Common synonyms include alarmist, fearmonger, panicmonger, stirrer.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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.
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