fearmongering

English

Verb

fearmongering

  1. present participle and gerund of fearmonger

Noun

fearmongering (usually uncountable, plural fearmongerings)

  1. The act of spreading needless fear; exaggerating purported threats in order to incite fear.
    Synonyms: alarmism, scaremongering
    • 2023 April 5, Mark Hay, “Does Testosterone Affect Your Politics?”, in VICE‎[1]:
      But the ongoing dip they describe is far more modest than people fearmongering about a T crisis make it out to be, and likely due to lifestyle factors like sedentariness and environmental pollutants messing with our bodies.
    • 2024, John Oliver, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 11, episode 17:
      Recent polling shows it’s the second most important issue among Americans. But a big reason for that is the relentless, bad-faith fearmongering around the issue by the Republican party themselves, perhaps best summed up by the startling growth this year of the toxic phrase ‘migrant crime’.

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