Scaremongery

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The act of spreading alarming information that is either exaggerated or untrue in order to scare others. uncountable

    "The honourable Member's statement is a form of scaremongery."

  2. 2
    Alarming information that is exaggerated or untrue. uncountable

    "This deliberately alarmist scaremongery has since been repeated on various occasions, notably in Brazil before 1964 and in Chile under Allende."

Example

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"The honourable Member's statement is a form of scaremongery."

Etymology

From scaremonger + -y.

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