What's the difference between doomsayer and doomster?

Doomsayer


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 6.15pm BST Obama says the GOP doomsaying has proven hollow: Most Republicans have made a whole bunch of predictions that haven't come true.
  • (2) The drone from traffic on the parallel Quai des Celestins, higher up the river bank, suggests traffic there is moving along at a respectable pace – confounding those doomsayers who suggested the controversial scheme to pedestrianise two miles of city centre highway would bring neighbouring roads to a standstill.
  • (3) The unions came to Westminster today, like doomsayers waiting for the rest of the country to catch up.
  • (4) Draghi ridiculed the doomsayers predicting that hyperinflation would eventually result from QE, saying that hawks had repeatedly warned about inflation taking off each time the ECB had cut interest rates – yet inflation remained very low.
  • (5) Nor is it disintegrating, as the doomsayers love to repeat.
  • (6) Ferrari was hopeful about the potential to save the Great Barrier Reef, she said, despite the doomsaying about its prospects.
  • (7) After six years as editor of the red-top she delivered a passionate defence of tabloids while railing against industry doomsayers at the Cudlipp Lecture at the London College of Communication.
  • (8) Miliband will say that their success has proved how "doomsayers", from Oswald Moseley to the BNP, have completely misjudged Britain.
  • (9) He will say: "We've had our fair share of doomsayers in Britain over the years, from Oswald Moseley in the 1930s, to Enoch Powell in the 1960s, to Nick Griffin today, who said it wasn't possible for us to get along.
  • (10) Should any of this doomsaying concern us, particularly in a credit-crunched world?
  • (11) Yet there are still reasons to hope that 2017, like 2016, will not turn out as bad as the doomsayers predict.
  • (12) Focus DIY gave doomsayers more reason to be gloomy after it embarked on a vital restructuring to stave off its collapse.
  • (13) Defying all the doomsayers who said a vote to leave could prompt a recession, consumers carried on spending and businesses continued to expand .
  • (14) Nigeria has proved the doomsayers wrong before, but the odds are worsening.
  • (15) Right-wing conservatives like Jacob Rees-Mogg joined in, saying that because of the obsession of "the doomsayers of the quasi-religious Green movement" poor people "may die because they can't afford fuel".
  • (16) Those glum doomsayers, prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu , defence chief Ehud Barak, and president Shimon Peres , are frantically ringing alarm bells like a trio of demented churchwardens.
  • (17) But, against the doomsayers, an almost supernatural peace and good will reigned.
  • (18) The long-awaited election in the continent’s biggest democracy, with 60 million potential voters, did not descend into the chaos or violence that the doomsayers had predicted, but it was hardly plain sailing.
  • (19) He said industry doomsayers were "misguided cynics".
  • (20) Edwards – a high profile City strategist renowned as a market doomsayer – said the scheme was artificially propping up the market and preventing prices correcting to affordable levels.

Doomster


Definition:

  • (n.) Same as Dempster.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The doomsters told us at the turn of the year that Romanians in particular were going to get sick, claim benefits and not work at all.
  • (2) Dominic Grace , Savills head of London residential development, says: The thumbs up for the Northern Line extension and the enormous financial commitment made by Battersea Power Station’s new Malaysian owners will stifle the cries of the doomsters, who for so long have stated that without them, the whole regeneration of the area would be hampered.

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