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scaremongers

scaremongers is the plural of scaremonger.

Meaning of scaremonger

Noun

scaremonger (plural scaremongers)

  1. Someone who spreads worrying rumours or needlessly alarms people.
    • I have refrained from giving actual names and dates, for obvious reasons, and have therefore been compelled, even at the risk of being again denounced as a scaremonger, to present the facts in the form of fiction—fiction which, I trust, will point its own patriotic moral.1909, William Le Queux, Spies of the Kaiser

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Questions about scaremongers

What is scaremongers the plural of?
Scaremongers is the plural of scaremonger.

Words near scaremongers in the dictionary

  1. scaremonger
  2. scaremongered
  3. scaremongerer
  4. scaremongerers
  5. scaremongering
  6. scaremongers
  7. scaremongery
  8. scareproof
  9. scarequote
  10. scarequotes
  11. scarer

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