alarmist
Use Alarmist in a sentence
mɪst noun
adjective
2.
of or like an alarmist.
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| —n | |
| 1. | a person who alarms or attempts to alarm others needlessly or without due grounds |
| 2. | a person who is easily alarmed |
| —adj | |
| 3. | characteristic of an alarmist |
| a'larmism | |
| —n | |
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Alarmist
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Example sentences
He is a propagandist or at best, an alarmist, working for the globalist machinery.
It seems alarmist and overexcited even to pose it when the realities are so clear.
Talk of default is dismissed as alarmist by the finance ministry.
And generals have form in making alarmist predictions of catastrophe following rulings on human rights.
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