fearmonger

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
16
Words With Friends
19
Letters
10
Pronunciation
/ˈfɪəmʌŋɡə/
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/ˈfɪəmʌŋɡə/ · /ˈfɪəɹˌmʌŋɡəɹ/

Definition of fearmonger

2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. Someone who spreads fear.
    “I think the Tea Partiers, despite their contradictions, are not all wrong about Big Government. But I worry that, in time, a clever fearmonger could manipulate popular opinion into an electoral mandate.”
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noun

  1. Someone who spreads fear.
    “I think the Tea Partiers, despite their contradictions, are not all wrong about Big Government. But I worry that, in time, a clever fearmonger could manipulate popular opinion into an electoral mandate.”

verb

  1. (intransitive)To spread fear.

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Etymology

From fear + monger (“dealer in a specific commodity; (by extension) person promoting something undesirable”).

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