scaremonger

Example Sentences

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For this he was treated as a scaremonger, even a crank.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 7, 2022

But one of my colleagues, consultant anaesthetist Fozia Hayat, has been telling me about a malicious and foolish message she recently received from a local scaremonger.

From BBC • May 11, 2020

He’s not an orthodox scaremonger, sending his camera gliding down dark hallways in search of the usual ghouls.

From New York Times • Jun. 7, 2018

I’m not making this speech because I want to moralise or scaremonger, but because I feel profoundly as a politician, and as a father, that the time for action has come.

From BusinessWeek • Jul. 22, 2013

All of these he knew were virtually sitting on the crater of a volcano, and he had often said so, only to be derided as a scaremonger.

From Forging the Blades A Tale of the Zulu Rebellion by Mitford, Bertram