scaremonger

Example Sentences

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Yet the issue with weather influencers, Prof Angus notes, is their tendency to scaremonger, as social media weather forecaster Higgins Storm Chasing, also based in Townsville, has been criticised for.

From BBC

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

From Seattle Times

May said he “did not want to be a scaremonger” and stressed that it was “very rare” for a dognapper to accost an owner while out on a walk with a dog.

From Seattle Times

Even if one disagrees, why label those who raise these important issues as “silly and strident” and “scaremongers” and leftists?

From Washington Post

Instead of the 200 or more Soviet intercontinental ballistic missiles that scaremongers had predicted, the Russians had just four.

From Washington Post