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fearmongers

fearmongers is the plural of fearmonger.

fearmongers is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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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Questions about fearmongers

What is fearmongers the plural of?
Fearmongers is the plural of fearmonger.

Words near fearmongers in the dictionary

  1. fearmongered
  2. fearmongerer
  3. fearmongerers
  4. fearmongering
  5. fearmongerings
  6. fearmongers
  7. fearmonging
  8. fearmongs
  9. Fearn
  10. fearnaught
  11. fearnaughts

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