Meaning of scaremonger | Babel Free

Definitions

Someone who spreads worrying rumours or needlessly alarms people.

Equivalents

Examples

“I have refrained from giving actual names and dates, for obvious reasons, and have therefore been compelled, even at the risk of being again denounced as a scaremonger, to present the facts in the form of fiction—fiction which, I trust, will point its own patriotic moral.”

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