词汇 | scaremonger |
释义 | scaremonger noun[ C ] disapprovinguk /ˈskeəˌmʌŋ.ɡər/ us /ˈskerˌmʌŋ.ɡɚ/ a person who spreads stories that cause public fear散播骇人听闻消息的人,危言耸听者 People who reveal secrets & tell tales big mouth blabbermouth dobber fink grass informer nark rat rumour-monger scandalmonger sneak snitch source stool pigeon supergrass tattletale telltale whistle-blower Related wordscaremongering Examples of scaremongerscaremonger Only scaremongers who are seeking to make political capital out of the situation are peddling such malicious and unjustified rumours. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I am critical of many of those who indulge in scaremongering about the population explosion, but we must recognise that it is a growing problem. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We apparently cannot discuss airships or talk about them without being called scaremongers. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Is it not nonsensical that many people are scaremongering when there is no need for them to do so? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not believe that anybody should scaremonger and frighten old people for the sake of it. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 A decade ago, that evidence was ignored, and the scientists dealing with it were dismissed as eccentric or as scaremongers. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not like to use language which appears to be that of a scaremonger. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Indeed, since he has been shadow social security spokesman his principal stock-in-trade has been scaremongering. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Is he saying that their anxieties are not genuine and that they are merely scaremongering? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I hope that they will not do this, because it is scaremongering and calculated to cause alarm when no such risk exists. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If he will not, it is not scaremongering to say that some of these centres face closure. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It strikes me that, again, they are scaremongering. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 At any rate, if we have been scaremongers, we have produced some results. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They said that we were exaggerating and scaremongering in an attempt to frighten the pensioners and the travelling public. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I deplore the way in which they have recently been scaremongering in my constituency. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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