Scaremongery
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Scaremongery is a noun meaning The act of spreading alarming information that is either exaggerated or untrue in order to scare others.
Meaning
The act of spreading alarming information that is either exaggerated or untrue in order to scare others.
More Meanings
- Alarming information that is exaggerated or untrue.
Example Sentences
The honourable Member's statement is a form of scaremongery.
This deliberately alarmist scaremongery has since been repeated on various occasions, notably in Brazil before 1964 and in Chile under Allende.
As our Order's librarian, it is one of Dr. Isbister's duties to read the city newspapers, and I'm afraid they fill his mind with rumors and scaremongery.
As the businessmen have been lobbying hard for the government to take measures to reflate the economy, there may have been an element of scaremongery in their forecast.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include scaremongering, fearmongering, fearmonging, scandalmongery, panicmongering, horrormongering.
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