alarmist
Example Sentences
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Alarmist reactions to bad weather are a well-worn London tradition: Heat waves bring warnings of buckled railroad tracks; a light coating of snow paralyzes the streets.
From New York Times • Aug. 2, 2021
Alarmist thinking is not justified -- unless of course it is news click-bait.
From New York Times • Jun. 27, 2016
Alarmist writing may hasten the next slump and distract attention from a more realistic and important development, which we might call multiplicity.
From Nature • Oct. 13, 2015
Alarmist Sirs: Thousands of Americans use salt and pepper shakers made in Japan and Germany.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Every one I met was an Alarmist and that is polite for liar.
From Adventures and Letters of Richard Harding Davis by Davis, Charles Belmont