fearmonging

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

fearmong +‎ -ing

Noun[edit]

fearmonging (uncountable)

  1. Misconstruction of fearmongering.
    • 2002 July 16, Nicolas Garcia, “The Open-Borders Conspiracy”, in alt.politics.immigration[1] (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-18:
      why all this fearmonging???? what good comes out of trying to scare people into thinking all these LIES????? do you have ANY PROOF of the things you come up with?????
    • 2005 January 23, De-fly-ie and his band@satanicgoats.cult.bazaar.ss David De-fly-ie, “Question for Political Right Wing”, in can.politics[2] (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-18:
      I doult Tommy the feminist will grasp anything Tyler, you know the type of propaganda and fearmonging Tommy promotes for it's cult like god...
    • 2005 May 7, nitin_pa...@hotmail.com, “Pat Robertson”, in soc.politics[3] (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-18:
      Secondly, such fearmonging is specifically to falsely proclaim that people have lost any liberties, when in fact they have not lost any liberties. It does not refer to all forms of dissent.
    • 2006 November 11, Adam Albright, “Real Conservatives”, in alt.fan.rush-limbaugh[4] (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-18:
      The era of necocon greed, fearmonging and warmongering is over.

Verb[edit]

fearmonging

  1. present participle and gerund of fearmong