0 someone who intentionally tries to make people afraid of something when this is not necessary or reasonable:
1 to intentionally try to make people afraid of something when this is not necessary or reasonable:
He is nothing but a fearmonger who pulls readers with sensational headlines.
The fear mongers want to curtail our freedoms by putting us under surveillance.
I try not to be a fearmonger on homeland security issues, but this one is very serious.
Cult leaders, religious fanatics, astronomers and internet fearmongers have been predicting the apocalypse for thousands of years.
Immigration to Europe is far from being the tidal wave portrayed by fear-mongers.
The website fear-mongers about the safety and efficacy of vaccines.
The President continues to fearmonger, and he makes up the facts.
This is nothing more than a thinly veiled attempt to fear monger and take advantage of a community in mourning.
