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名詞

fearmongering (usually uncountable, plural fearmongerings)

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

   Synonyms: alarmism, scaremongering

   • 2023 April 5, Mark Hay, “Does Testosterone Affect Your Politics?”, in VICE‎:

     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.

   • 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’.