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fear monger

fear monger is the alternative form of fearmonger.

Meaning of fearmonger

Noun

fearmonger (plural fearmongers)

  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.2010 December 4, Evan Thomas, “The Deepest Dangers Facing the United States [print version: Why It’s Time to Worry]”, in Newsweek, New York, N.Y.: Newsweek, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the...

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Forms of fear monger

Noun
pluralfear mongers
Verb
third-person singular presentfear mongers
present participlefear mongering
past participlefear mongered
pastfear mongered

Questions about fear monger

What is fear monger the alternative form of?
Fear monger is the alternative form of fearmonger.

Words near fear monger in the dictionary

  1. fear
  2. fear campaign
  3. fear campaigns
  4. fear gortach
  5. fear gortha
  6. fear monger
  7. fear mongered
  8. fear mongering
  9. fear mongers
  10. fear not
  11. fear of missing out

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