fearmonger

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈfɪəmʌŋɡə/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈfɪəɹˌmʌŋɡəɹ/

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• Hyphenation: fear‧mong‧er

From fear +‎ monger (“dealer in a specific commodity; (by extension) person promoting something undesirable”).

fearmonger (plural fearmongers)

1. Someone who spreads fear.

   Synonyms: alarmist, fearmongerer, panicmonger, scaremonger; see also Thesaurus:fearmonger

   Coordinate term: hatemonger

   • 2010 December 4, Evan Thomas, “The Deepest Dangers Facing the United States ”, in Newsweek‎, New York, N.Y.: Newsweek, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-07-13:

     I think the Tea Partiers, despite their contradictions, are not all wrong about Big Government. But I worry that, in time, a clever fearmonger could manipulate popular opinion into an electoral mandate.

• fear-monger, fear monger

• fearmongering

Back-formation from fearmongering.

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

1. (intransitive) To spread fear.

• fear-monger, fear monger

• fearmongerer

• fearmongering on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “fearmonger, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “fearmonger, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

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