fearmongering

English

Verb

fearmongering

1. present participle and gerund of fearmonger

Noun

fearmongering (usually uncountable, plural fearmongerings)

1. The act of spreading needless fear; exaggerating purported threats in order to incite fear.

   Synonyms: alarmism, scaremongering

   • 2024, John Oliver, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 11, episode 17:

     Recent polling shows it’s the second most important issue among Americans. But a big reason for that is the relentless, bad-faith fearmongering around the issue by the Republican party themselves, perhaps best summed up by the startling growth this year of the toxic phrase ‘migrant crime’.

Translations

spreading needless fear

• Finnish: pelonlietsonta
• French: alarmisme (fr) m
• German: Panikmache (de) f, Angstmacherei (de) f, Angstparolen f pl
• Greek: κινδυνολογία (el) f (kindynología)
• Hungarian: riogatás (hu), rettegtetés, félelemkeltés, pánikkeltés (hu), vészmadárkodás, rémhírterjesztés (hu)
• Polish: sianie strachu n
• Russian: паникёрство n (panikjórstvo), аларми́зм (ru) m (alarmízm), провоци́рование (ru) n (provocírovanije) / раска́чивание (ru) n (raskáčivanije) / раздува́ние (ru) n (razduvánije) / нагнета́ние (ru) n (nagnetánije) / се́яние (ru) n (séjanije) па́ники (ru) f (pániki)
• Turkish: korku tüccarlığı