0 quotation marks (= the symbols “ ” or ‘ ’ ) that are sometimes put around a word or phrase in a written sentence in order to show that the word is being used in a special way or in a way that may not be correct or true:
I will not join Twitter, but if I did, I would "follow" you. I use scare quotes because that just sounds creepy to me.
I’ve put scare quotes around “fermions” and “bosons”, for reasons that are obvious to anyone who has taken more than a passing glance at Garrett’s paper.
You can add scare quotes to "imperialism" in that sentence if it's strictly necessary for your mental health.
The scare quotes sound the alarm, and so alert readers to the idea that something is deficient or inappropriate about the word being used.
Operatic song is always 'composed' (scare quotes) by the operatic personage in question.
For it is the scare quotes that perfectly preserve the distinction between realistic and operatic song.
So, in that sense all operatic characters must be 'composers' (scare quotes) of their 'conversation'.
The reader may have noticed our scare quotes around 'meaning' (at the opening of section 7 and earlier).
