(n.) One prone to sound or excite alarms, especially, needless alarms.
Example Sentences:
(1) One of them got a gold medal in medicine, for being top of the year, but they dropped out for exactly these reasons.” These are not alarmist stories being spread by campaigners.
(2) This can contribute to mitigating the dangerously polarising and alarmist discourse that views migrants as a threat to a society and its public order.” The senior European human rights official says he is worried that this “dominant political discourse which is tainted by alarmism” has led to the unsurprising outcome that the public consider immigration as the most important issue facing the country ahead of health, crime or the economy.
(3) The "never-worked families" hypothesis is convenient for ministers and alarmist columnists, but is it in any way true?
(4) A leaked letter from the company's general manager, Stanley Lewandowski, said: "We believe it is necessary to support the scientific community that is willing to stand up against the alarmists."
(5) A few years ago, libertarians who warned that the advocates of punitive taxes and restrictions on smokers would only move on to bully others were dismissed as alarmists.
(6) They are the only couple from the state dinner to get their picture on the front page of the Washington Post, and they were the source of a mix of merriment at their daring and alarmist speculation on the morning television shows about what would have happened if they had been Islamist extremists.
(7) Only his heart, not his head, could write that Toby Young was "lucky" not to wind up in a locked psychiatric ward after smoking cannabis, for even the most alarmist interpretation of the medical data does not declare psychosis the most likely consequence.
(8) Despite the fact that Wall Street and the City of London seemed to be dominated by headstrong young men with far too much money and far too little sense, the chance of a catastrophic blow-out was viewed as alarmist nonsense.
(9) On Saturday we wondered if we would find armed guards outside the synagogue and alarmist talk within of a palpable threat, reaching back to the persecutions of history.
(10) Its job would be to test alarmist announcements against stringent statistical probability.
(11) It is the kind of thing alarmists have been predicting for years.
(12) I don't think I am being alarmist, I'm just thinking of the worst-case scenario."
(13) It's probably not something I'd say myself because it has a red-baiting or alarmist tone to it.
(14) Repeatedly through the 90s, governments at the state and city level enacted laws and policies designed to stamp out what concerned parents and alarmist newspapers typically called "drug supermarkets".
(15) Europe’s human rights commissioner has accused David Cameron and Theresa May of “scaling up alarmist rhetoric” on migration, portraying migrants as a “threat to UK society” and fuelling a xenophobic climate in Britain.
(16) They can also affect power distribution grids on the ground and the electronics of satellites, but recent claims that solar storms could cause a "global Katrina" seem unduly alarmist, unless power and satellite companies have been incredibly negligent over the past decade.
(17) It also forged close ties to a parallel, ad hoc intelligence operation inside Ariel Sharon's office in Israel specifically to bypass Mossad and provide the Bush administration with more alarmist reports on Saddam's Iraq than Mossad was prepared to authorise.
(18) The alarmist reports, carried by the Xinhua news agency and the People's Daily website, were in stark contrast to the congratulatory tone of most previous domestic coverage of the project, which was planned for flood control along the Yangtze and for lessening China's dependence on power driven by coal.
(19) The internet is robust, but don’t touch it The alarmist position generally proceeds as follows: The first and most compelling point is the assertion that the European court failed to balance rights to privacy and personal data against freedom of expression and information.
(20) Although the alarmist preamble to each episode of AHTSYL states that "over 900 of us" face a life-threatening emergency in Britain every day, it avoids charges of selective editing with a tight focus on three cases per show.
Scaremonger
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) She also hit out at “scaremongering” by media commentators in the wake of the attack, insisting that it was “very irresponsible” to whip up “mass hysteria” about the dangers of the internet.
(2) "These figures expose the scale of scaremongering by Nigel Farage and Ukip over Romanian and Bulgarian migration," he said.
(3) People don’t really believe that he cares enough and you need somebody who cares and recognises the problem and is seen to act.” During the 2015 campaign, she says that Hunt accused her of “scaremongering” about threats to the NHS.
(4) Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood tackled him on the subject during the seven-way discussion, saying it was scaremongering and that he should be ashamed of himself.
(5) Hunt has already raised the prospect of not all A&E units remaining open during that action and patients’ health being put at risk on 10 February, though the BMA has accused him of scaremongering.
(6) The scaremongering, dissembling and misrepresentation of the no campaign will be ramped up as we approach polling day."
(7) Leading Eurosceptics, who have warned that pro-Europeans will seek to ape the so-called “project fear” tactics of the Scottish referendum, accused the prime minister of scaremongering after No 10 raised the prospect of the refugee camps in northern France moving across the Channel.
(8) But they said they were accused by ministers of scaremongering.
(9) "We are proof that it is entirely possible to teach this in an age-appropriate way – it's not about scaremongering, it's about keeping children safe," says Smith, adding that primary schoolchildren may be at the most risk.
(10) A dossier of murders and rapes committed by 50 EU criminals in Britain has been published by a leading out campaign, in a move described by critics as “scaremongering of the worst kind”.
(11) I was able to live a normal life for a year until the government banned [it] in another reactionary response to media scaremongering."
(12) Misrepresentations of social work Maris Stratulis , England manager, British Association of Social Workers : "Scaremongering is alienating a lot of the people that social workers are trying to work with.
(13) Hatwal said Farage "owes the country an apology for his reckless scaremongering last year".
(14) But amid mounting opposition to the measures, the Communist party lambasted the speech as "scaremongering".
(15) They are the masters of scaremongering and scapegoating.
(16) The positive case for remaining in the EU will also be made by the Scottish National party’s foreign affairs spokesman, Alex Salmond , on Monday, when he will condemn the warnings about the risks of Brexit as, “at best puerile and at worst outlandish scaremongering”.
(17) Simon loves music, too – so much that he formed his own band, the Scaremongers, a few years ago – and he says this: "You could say we've slightly kidded ourselves.
(18) Of course, I feel guilty letting him watch anything at all, thanks to that scaremongering doctor, although the only way to stop a child being exposed to screens in today's world would be to throw him in a bag at birth and not let him out until the end of the next world war.
(19) Nicola Sturgeon has said that [it] would be sufficient to justify a second referendum on Scottish independence.” The report, which appeared to counter the claims by the main pro-EU Britain Stronger in Europe campaign that it would run a positive campaign, was immediately criticised by Vote Leave as scaremongering.
(20) Blair Jenkins, chief executive of Yes Scotland, said Cameron's speech "was the same litany of empty threats and empty promises we have come to expect from the no campaign – and he is the prime minister who has been orchestrating the campaign of ridiculous scaremongering being directed against Scotland".