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doom-mongering

doom-mongering noun: the spreading of doom or pessimism.

Noun

doom-mongering (usually uncountable, plural doom-mongerings)

  1. (usually) The spreading of doom or pessimism.
    • Some shrug all this off as doom-mongering. Great Britain and Ireland have similar problems, so it is unfair to cast Northern Ireland as dysfunctional, said Ian Marshall, a farmer and former Ulster Unionist party politician who also served in the Irish Senate.2023 October 13, Rory Carroll, “‘The hope we had is gone’: how 20 months of stasis has paralysed Northern Ireland”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

Forms of doom-mongering

pluraldoom-mongerings

Questions about doom-mongering

What does doom-mongering mean?
Doom-mongering means the spreading of doom or pessimism.
What part of speech is doom-mongering?
Doom-mongering is a noun.
What is the plural of doom-mongering?
The plural of doom-mongering is doom-mongerings.

Words near doom-mongering in the dictionary

  1. doom'd
  2. doom-and-gloom
  3. doom-and-gloomer
  4. doom-and-gloomers
  5. doom-monger
  6. doom-mongering
  7. doom-mongers
  8. doom-scrolling
  9. doom-surfing
  10. doom/death
  11. doomage

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