(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.
Purveyor
Definition:
(n.) One who provides victuals, or whose business is to make provision for the table; a victualer; a caterer.
(n.) An officer who formerly provided, or exacted provision, for the king's household.
(n.) a procurer; a pimp; a bawd.
Example Sentences:
(1) The worst purveyors of hate, they’re emboldened by this election and they’re out in force.
(2) Here was the purveyor of nigh on a third of the nation’s food openly promising a cut that will be barely noticed over time by consumers but will have a positive health impact.
(3) He even has a soft spot for the Cockney Rejects, pugnacious purveyors of football singalongs.
(4) But in and among the general approval, there was the odd titter that such a well-established prize should find itself being backed by a purveyor of sticky drinks.
(5) But his core supporters have remained faithful, choosing to believe that the mainstream media are purveyors of fake news, rather than accept that the Trump presidency has not been the unrivalled success the president has claimed.
(6) Earlier this year we wrote about Gnod , Salford's finest purveyors of ambient sludge, prog-metal and murky motorik psych-drone space-rock.
(7) Instead, the least attractive aspects of London 2012, the ZiL lanes and the Visa-only policy and McDonald's and Coca-Cola as purveyors of sustenance to a sporting nation, were smothered not only by the competition but by the ocean of good humour fostered by the joviality of the volunteers, the inspirational architecture and the attention given to the natural landscape (with apologies to those who had to move to make room for it all).
(8) Josie Long Watching Josie Long evolve from purveyor of childlike whimsy to political agitator has been one of the pleasures of the last few festivals.
(9) One side of each carcass was fabricated using National Association of Meat Purveyors specifications.
(10) Phosphorus is also an energy purveyor during numerous biologic reactions, and depp deprivation may lead to a lot of pathologic situations, sometimes severe.
(11) It certainly looks over the top to me.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest “I would have loosened my grip.” Photograph: Screenshot via FoxNews.com Even Bill O’Reilly, the reliable hardass and purveyor of murderous ideation , seemed off his game.
(12) One rebuke to purveyors of a failing conventional wisdom, which may have been refined in the retelling , was "When the facts change, I change my mind.
(13) For Greeks, the IMF has a reputation as a merciless purveyor of fiscal delinquents, more usually associated with Latin America and other developing economies.
(14) The Beatles are now regularly credited with making pop acceptable, elevating it from the realms of teenage delinquency, and forcing critics in the Sunday papers to consider pop stars as thinkers, not just purveyors of teenage noise.
(15) But these platforms are by no means merely the purveyors of Smith’s invisible hand.
(16) But just as Oliver Stone has managed to make a boring sequel to Wall Street, despite the real Wall Street's enthralling and nigh-on-cinematic recent wickedness (the inner Freudian torment of boring Shia LaBoeuf's boring character is apparently more interesting to Stone – once the great purveyor of conspiracy theories – than the near-collapse of capitalism), so the makers of the upcoming films about Facebook have missed an obvious trick with their movies.
(17) There is a certain duty that comes with being the anointed purveyor of truth.
(18) This study reports on the value of head injury instruction cards as purveyors of information to patients.
(19) Liverpool also want Aston Villa's purveyor of wayward crosses Ashley Young and will obviously need a muscular, ponytail-sporting Geordie to get on the end of them; step forward £30m-rated Newcastle United No9 Andy Carroll .
(20) ) I would rather drink Bud (another St Louis product) than chomp on antacids.... looks like I need to hit the fridge for suds St Louis, purveyor of beer, ribs and Rolaids.