Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who spreads frightening rumors; an alarmist.
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- noun Someone who
spreads worrying rumours or needlesslyalarms people. - verb To spread worrying rumours.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person who spreads frightening rumors and stirs up trouble
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Examples
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I hate to "scaremonger," but this is where we've really, really gotten screwed.
Bob Dudley, BP CEO, Blames Media For Creating "Climate Of Fear" In Gulf The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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I hate to "scaremonger," but this is where we've really, really gotten screwed.
Bob Dudley, BP CEO, Blames Media For Creating "Climate Of Fear" In Gulf Jason Linkins 2010
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I hate to "scaremonger," but this is where we've really, really gotten screwed.
Bob Dudley, BP CEO, Blames Media For Creating "Climate Of Fear" In Gulf The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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I hate to "scaremonger," but this is where we've really, really gotten screwed.
Bob Dudley, BP CEO, Blames Media For Creating "Climate Of Fear" In Gulf Jason Linkins 2010
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Martin O'Malley (D) has accused Ehrlich of being a "scaremonger" on taxes.
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And Ehrlich was colorful as usual when asked about O'Malley's claim that he is being a "scaremonger" by telling people Democrats are planning a monumental tax increase after the election.
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He has accused Ehrlich of being a "scaremonger" on the issue of taxes.
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GOP should not "scaremonger" anymore cuz OBAMA'S doing the SCAREMONGERING already.
Polls Show Public Not Buying The Case For Terror Trials - Dan_McLaughlin’s blog - RedState 2009
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It is just as unfair to characterise everyone who believes our future welfare is dependent on a Yes vote as a 'scaremonger' as it is to characterise everyone who believes our future welfare is dependent on a No vote as a loo-lah.
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"scaremonger" Bishops and priests are telling you about FOCA; the guy who seems to have changed his views on virtually every important topic of the day in order to back President-elect Obama is telling us that the legislation that Obama claims would be his first order of business is really not such a big deal after all.
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