Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who predicts calamity at every opportunity.
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- noun One who makes
dire predictions about the future; one whopredicts doom .
Etymologies
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Examples
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And they make a habit of referring to any climate scientist who expresses fear over a warmer future as a "doomsayer" - a bit of a loaded term.
ModerateVoters.org 2009
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Mr. Klamer recalls that many regarded him as "a doomsayer or an idiot."
Doubts Arise in Euro's Birthplace Christopher Rhoads 2011
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But it's not just the gay bashing that I find annoying but the constant strain of doomsayer rhetoric:
Alvin McEwen: Values Voter Summit Turns to Free-Range Gay Bashing and Hypocrisy Alvin McEwen 2011
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Some of us remember you very well Jimbo and we know we all have feet of clay but please just do everyone a favor and do not resurrect the sad doomsayer of the beginning of the 21st Century who couild not have been more wrong if he had been Charlie Manson predicting his "Helter Skelter" race war.
Water in Chapala 2009
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But it's not just the gay bashing that I find annoying but the constant strain of doomsayer rhetoric:
Alvin McEwen: Values Voter Summit Turns to Free-Range Gay Bashing and Hypocrisy Alvin McEwen 2011
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Some of us remember you very well Jimbo and we know we all have feet of clay but please just do everyone a favor and do not resurrect the sad doomsayer of the beginning of the 21st Century who couild not have been more wrong if he had been Charlie Manson predicting his "Helter Skelter" race war.
Water in Chapala 2009
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This president has gone from a cool calculating review the data kind of guy to a "we have to do it now or else" doomsayer.
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But it's not just the gay bashing that I find annoying but the constant strain of doomsayer rhetoric:
Alvin McEwen: Values Voter Summit Turns to Free-Range Gay Bashing and Hypocrisy Alvin McEwen 2011
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Some of us remember you very well Jimbo and we know we all have feet of clay but please just do everyone a favor and do not resurrect the sad doomsayer of the beginning of the 21st Century who couild not have been more wrong if he had been Charlie Manson predicting his "Helter Skelter" race war.
Water in Chapala 2009
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But it's not just the gay bashing that I find annoying but the constant strain of doomsayer rhetoric:
Alvin McEwen: Values Voter Summit Turns to Free-Range Gay Bashing and Hypocrisy Alvin McEwen 2011
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