fearmongering
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.04 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
present participle and gerund of fearmonger
noun
The act of spreading needless fear; exaggerating purported threats in order to incite fear.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "But the ongoing dip they describe is far more modest than people fearmongering about a T crisis make it out to be, and likely due to lifestyle factors like sedentariness and environmental pollutants messing with our bodies."
- "Recent polling shows it’s the second most important issue among Americans. But a big reason for that is the relentless, bad-faith fearmongering around the issue by the Republican party themselves, perhaps best summed up by the startling growth this year of the toxic phrase ‘migrant crime’."