scaremongery noun2 •The act of spreading alarming information that is either exaggerated or untrue in order to scare others.The honourable Member's statement is a form of scaremongery. — 1955 •Alarming information that is exaggerated or untrue.This deliberately alarmist scaremongery has since been repeated on various occasions, notably in Brazil before 1964 and in Chile under Allende. — 1979
