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- noun Plural form of
scaremonger .
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Examples
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He gave statistics and reassurances on asbestos, blocked a ban and attacked parliemtnarians as "alarmists" and "scaremongers" - all on a topic he now admits he knew nothing about.
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But the so-called scaremongers were proved correct.
British Blogs 2009
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Kristof calls people like me "scaremongers;" and defiantly says, "This time we won't scare."
Archive 2009-06-01 Dr. Sanity 2009
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Kristof calls people like me "scaremongers;" and defiantly says, "This time we won't scare."
THIS TIME, I DON'T CARE ANYMORE...LET THE ZOMBIES TAKE OVER MEDICINE Dr. Sanity 2009
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President Harry Truman charged that such "scaremongers" had "created such a wave of fear and uncertainty that ... people are growing frightened -- and frightened people don't protest."
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Bishops and those priests (like Fr. Doug) who promote this view of FOCA and who warn of the impending disaster for the unborn that it represents are nothing more than held up in contrast to these "scaremongers", is Prof. Kmiec
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"scaremongers", won the vote, but over a third of those present decided that global warming was so much hot air.
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Many commercial banks across Europe have joined the chorus of scaremongers "liquidity will dry up", "contagion will spread", "savings will be wiped out", etc for much the same reason.
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Many commercial banks across Europe have joined the chorus of scaremongers "liquidity will dry up", "contagion will spread", "savings will be wiped out", etc for much the same reason.
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Yet despite this evidence, the population scaremongers always draw exactly the opposite conclusion.
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » The Narrow-Mindedness of Zero-Sum Thinking 2009
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