Definitions
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- noun Someone who
spreads fear , or needlessly raises the alarm. - verb To spread fear.
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Examples
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I think everyone should have access to healthcare but there are better ways to do it, and demonizing everyone who opposes you makes you the name-calling fearmonger doesn't it?
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I have been labelled a fearmonger for being concerned about an advocate of private health care being elected head of the Canadian Medical Association and was called a supporter of - I love this framing - "enforced state-run health care".
Peace, order and good government, eh?: September 2006 Archives 2006
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POLITICS: Liberals are quick with 'fearmonger' label
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So in a 30-minute speech she was a "fearmonger" for all of about 2 minutes sprinkled throughout a speech that otherwise addressed energy, taxes, her own record, and John McCain's history.
Cootiehog 2008
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A: Because the GOP had the war to "fearmonger" people with, the liberals were feeling left out, so they created their own crisis that is just as dire as any terrorist, and will allow them to gain money and pass freedom restricting legislation to save us from ourselves?
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Brown and the other stooges are using the usual fearmonger and lies to promote obstructionism.
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But if the Dems are just using scare and fearmonger tactics then the attack on Democracy comes from their side.
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Its only fair to hand over fearmonger title to Obama admin.
North Korea: Clinton 'funny lady, by no means intelligent' 2009
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But I guess that's too much to expect in a nation ruled by large corporations who pay PR firms and consultants and lobbyists the big bux to misinform and fearmonger the ignorant masses.
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Cheney is the most pathetic of human beings: he is a fearmonger who preaches righteousness, when all along he preys upon the feeble minds that believe in him.
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