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scaremongery

noun

Etymology

From scaremonger + -y.

  1. derived from *(s)meh₂-✻ — “to beckon, signal”
  2. derived from *manicō✻
  3. derived from ن ج ل
  4. derived from μαγγανεύω — “to use charms or philtres; to cheat, play tricks; to dress food artificially to make it appear better”
  5. derived from *-ārī✻
  6. derived from mangō — “dealer, trader”
  7. inherited from *mangārī✻ — “dealer, merchant, monger”
  8. inherited from mangere — “dealer, merchant, trader”
  9. inherited from mongere
  10. compounded as scaremonger — “scare + monger”
  11. formed as scaremongery — “scaremonger + -y”

Definitions

  1. The act of spreading alarming information that is either exaggerated or untrue in order…

    The act of spreading alarming information that is either exaggerated or untrue in order to scare others.

    • The honourable Member's statement is a form of scaremongery.
    • The magazine Time is not a journal that is given to scaremongery, but in its issue of the 3rd March, 1952, it reported the result of an investigation into television, as it affected children, by a committee of mothers.
    • As the businessmen have been lobbying hard for the government to take measures to reflate the economy, there may have been an element of scaremongery in their forecast.

  2. Alarming information that is exaggerated or untrue.

    • This deliberately alarmist scaremongery has since been repeated on various occasions, notably in Brazil before 1964 and in Chile under Allende.
    • As our Order's librarian, it is one of Dr. Isbister's duties to read the city newspapers, and I'm afraid they fill his mind with rumors and scaremongery.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for scaremongery. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA