scare tactic
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.55 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A type of psychological manipulation regarding a particular issue in which fear or alarm is aroused.
Example Sentences
- "I think it's a scare tactic. The lockout will get publicity and then people will be less confident about coming to future rallies."
- "Invoking cancer is a scare tactic, not a health education strategy. The juxtaposition in the various iterations of Gardasil advertisements of the word “cancer” and the message “you can do something” put parents in a blameworthy position. The current advertisements for Gardasil 9 hardly mention the vaccine. Instead, in these ads children blame their parents for their failure to protect them from a potentially fatal illness."