scaremongery
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The act of spreading alarming information that is either exaggerated or untrue in order to scare others.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "The honourable Member's statement is a form of scaremongery."
- "The magazine Time is not a journal that is given to scaremongery, but in its issue of the 3rd March, 1952, it reported the result of an investigation into television, as it affected children, by a committee of mothers."
- "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."
- "This deliberately alarmist scaremongery has since been repeated on various occasions, notably in Brazil before 1964 and in Chile under Allende."
- "The Natural Childbirth movement, a private organisation, was fiercely criticised by some obstetric specialists who were very scathing of natural childbirth techniques and put about a lot of medical scaremongery – for example, that a baby would be exsanguinated if it were placed on the mother's abdomen before the placenta had been delivered and before the umbilical cord was cut."
- "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."
Etymology
From scaremonger + -y.