Scaremonger

Quick meaning: Scaremonger is a noun meaning Someone who spreads worrying rumours or needlessly alarms people.

Meaning

Someone who spreads worrying rumours or needlessly alarms people.

More Meanings

1. To spread worrying rumours.

Example Sentences

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.

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.

Word Forms

• scaremongers
• scaremongering
• scaremongered

Synonyms for scaremonger

Depending on context, synonyms include alarmist, fearmonger, panicmonger, stirrer.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include stirrer, scandalmonger, rumormonger, rumourmonger, rumor-monger, shitmonger.

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