fearmonger

• fear monger (noun and verb)

From fear +‎ monger.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɪə(ɹ)ˌmʌŋɡə(ɹ)/

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fearmonger (plural fearmongers)

1. Someone who spreads fear, or needlessly raises the alarm.
   • 2010 December 4, Evan Thomas, “Why It's Time to Worry”, in Newsweek:

     I worry that, in time, a clever fearmonger could manipulate popular opinion into an electoral mandate.

   Synonyms: alarmist, panicmonger, scaremonger

• fearmongering
• monger and its derived terms

fearmonger (third-person singular simple present fearmongers, present participle fearmongering, simple past and past participle fearmongered)

1. To spread fear.

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