(n.) A trader; a dealer; -- now used chiefly in composition; as, fishmonger, ironmonger, newsmonger.
(n.) A small merchant vessel.
(v. t.) To deal in; to make merchandise of; to traffic in; -- used chiefly of discreditable traffic.
Example Sentences:
(1) First, Dr Collins is fear-mongering when he says that ‘lives will be lost’ as a result of our calculations.
(2) So far the doom-mongers, including wishful-thinking opponents of the monarchy, have been proved wrong.
(3) Ditto selecting the right setlist from a back catalogue that's prone to end-of-the-world doom-mongering.
(4) Meanwhile, those occasionally reliable rumour-mongers over at Latino Review have posited a third scenario.
(5) This pernicious fear-mongering is dangerous and frustrating to deal with, and its targeting of those most likely to face discrimination has led to trans issues being quietly eliminated from non-discrimination legislation before.
(6) CAP president Cathi Herrod is urging Brewer to sign the legislation and deriding what she called “fear-mongering” from its opponents.
(7) But restrictions create fertile ground for rumour-mongering.
(8) George Osborne, the shadow chancellor, delivered an economically illiterate, and fear-mongering, rant to the Tory conference claiming that Britain is drowning in a sea of debt.
(9) The chief's critics, however, say Timoney's handling of protests and gatherings in each of the cities he's served in are wrought with examples of police abuse, illegal infiltration tactics, fear-mongering and a blatant disregard for freedom of expression.
(10) Chancellor Angela Merkel in her new year address on Thursday asked Germans to see refugee arrivals as “an opportunity for tomorrow” and urged doubters not to follow racist hate-mongers.
(11) We’re bombarded with stats and figures and doom-mongering from people on the telly who we can’t connect with, but the decisions made by the people in charge affect our day-to-day wellbeing.
(12) He’s using fear-mongering reminiscent of Nazi Germany and Stalin.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘This is outrageous’: US Muslim leader condemns Trump’s call to ban Muslims A significant silence that had followed past outrageous statements by Trump – in which Republican elders have declined direct confrontation, and the targets of his remarks have seemed humiliated or intimidated – seemed finally shattered at the billionaire’s latest offense.
(13) It was an incredible turnaround from just a week before, even for the American fear-mongering machine.
(14) We must deal with intrigue-mongers and provocateurs.
(15) If they want to punish rumour-mongers, they should punish the state media, too."
(16) The roots of this fear-mongering are deep, and when Ebola finally landed it fell on fertile soil .
(17) Saving the nation was why he yoked his party to Cameron: this speech reprised his scare-mongering Greek comparisons.
(18) Many of these fears are a reaction to the scare-mongering of vested interest groups or a misunderstanding of how the tax will work.
(19) Other media have taken similar stands in public, with one private TV channel saying it intended to bar certain guests from its political programmes on charges of being “rumour mongers” – parlance for government critics.
(20) Acta 440, 765--771) and with those inferred from the decay at 4.2 degrees K of the triplet-triplet absorption after picosecond excitation (Parson, W.W. and Monger, T.G.