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to scaremongering
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Someone who spreads worrying rumours or needlessly alarms people.
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As usual, this moral panic owes more to scaremongering than to logic or reality.
"Parents are very vulnerable to scaremongering about the dangers often associated with new technologies," she says.
Thanks to scaremongering by green lobbyists and organic farmers, and much media frenzy, most European shoppers will probably remain mistrustful.
So the Tories resorted to scaremongering that Nicola Sturgeon and Alex Salmond would call the shots in a minority Labour government and push Mr Miliband to the left.
We have to strike a balance when it comes to scaremongering stories, which have deep implications for thousands of people across the country.
A spokesman for the National Society for Clean Air, Tim Brown, said: "We hope the report will put an end to scaremongering over the health impacts of facilities like incineration".
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That said, we are not trying to scaremonger.
Cameron accused the union Unison of trying to "scaremonger" after it claimed the NHS is "on the brink of disaster".
But is it coherent to scaremonger about food security in Europe and yet to call for less intensive (and thus less productive) agriculture?
We support aggressive action on climate change and are puzzled by those who seem to want to scaremonger about its possible consequences.
London Underground's operation director, Nigel Holness, said: "It is totally irresponsible of the RMT leadership to attempt to scaremonger in this way.
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