monger

Example Sentences

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Fear mongering around "dangerousness" ensures the carceral system's success and necessity.

From Salon

“After centuries of being targeted for not being ‘American enough’ and viewed with suspicion based on looking ‘foreign,’ this type of insinuation and fear mongering only further endangers our communities,” the caucus members said.

From Los Angeles Times

But Soundararajan said arguments like the ones by the Hindu American Foundation are “rooted in fragility and fear mongering.”

From Seattle Times

Albert Ko, who chairs the epidemiology department at the Yale School of Public Health in New Haven, Connecticut, said the online claims amounted to “scare mongering.”

From Seattle Times

In that psychologically tense climate, Lhant explains that "there was also widespread fear mongering about gay people sharing locker rooms with straight people, much like the trans debate today."

From Salon