fearmongering

fearmongering englanniksi

1. (infl of)

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

(syn)

3. (quote-journal)|url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/testosterone-hormone-politics-research/|date=2023-04-05|passage=But the ongoing dip they describe is far more modest than people fearmongering about a T crisis make it out to be, and likely due to lifestyle factors like sedentariness and environmental pollutants messing with our bodies.

4. (quote-av)|season=11|number=17|title=(w)|text=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’.