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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of fearmonger.

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Examples

  • On top of that Mr. Henry, the RNC themselves were called out for their attempts to send out phony census mailers that fearmongered the real the thing.

    GOP Rep. urges conservatives to complete census forms 2010

  • Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN), who has fearmongered the Constitutionally-mandated census next year, may be facing a little census problem of her own.

    Census and Senseless 2009

  • Relax, indeed -- O'Reilly has even baselessly fearmongered that legal protections for LGBT people could, in fact, protect pedophiles.

    Karl Frisch: Prop. 8 Federal Lawsuit Begins, Cue Right-Wing Media Hysteria 2010

  • Beck and his fellow Fox News personalities have repeatedly called for Obama administration officials to be fired, asked viewers to dig up information on administration officials, and fearmongered about Obama, his advisers, and his policies.

    OpEdNews - Diary: ABC's Jake Tapper Assails White House Press Secretary for Saying that "Fox News isn't news" 2009

  • While hosting Bill Bennett's radio show this morning, RNC Chairman Michael Steele fearmongered about a government-run "health police" that would force Americans to get their ...

    Jesse Berney: Go Away, Tom Daschle 2009

  • Rove fearmongered that 80-90 percent of violence in Iraq is due to al Qaeda.

    ROVE SPEAKS AT ASPEN / MAKES NO APOLOGIES OR SENSE 2007

  • And this current fantasy about the unique threat that proved our oceans couldn't protect us is particularly rich considering they fearmongered a communist threat of total annihilation for decades.

    Hullabaloo 2005

  • And this current fantasy about the unique threat that proved our oceans couldn't protect us is particularly rich considering they fearmongered a communist threat of total annihilation for decades.

    Hullabaloo 2005

  • And this current fantasy about the unique threat that proved our oceans couldn't protect us is particularly rich considering they fearmongered a communist threat of total annihilation for decades.

    Hullabaloo 2005

  • And this current fantasy about the unique threat that proved our oceans couldn't protect us is particularly rich considering they fearmongered a communist threat of total annihilation for decades.

    Hullabaloo 2005

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