Meaning

1 senses
  1. Someone who spreads worrying rumours or needlessly alarms people.

    Panikmacher, Panikmacherin, Angstmacher

    паникёрpanikjór

    паніке́рpanikér, паніке́ркаpanikérka

    a person who spreads frightening rumors and stirs up trouble

Examples

7 sentences
  1. The mainstream media is the most prevalent practitioner of scaremongering.

  2. He was a scaremonger, always trying to make people worry.

    deEr war ein Panikmacher und stets bemüht, die Leute in Unruhe zu versetzen. — al_ex_an_der

  3. We should avoid scaremongering.

    deWir sollten Panikmache vermeiden. — al_ex_an_der

  4. Tom was accused of scaremongering.

  5. We're not scaremongering.

    ruМы не паникёры. — marafon

Translations

5 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
alarmist — see also alarmist:
Русский
By meaning 1
alarmist — see also alarmist:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
alarmist — see also alarmist:

Origin

From scare + monger.

From scare + monger.

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Forms

plural: scaremongers
Singularscaremonger
Pluralscaremongers

regular

Synonyms

4 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a person who spreads frightening rumors and stirs up trouble:stirrer

Word family

2 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
scaremonger — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto