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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
scare tactics
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The company used scare tactics to sell medical alert systems to the elderly.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Republicans have complained that Democrats are using Social Security scare tactics to incite seniors groups and others to oppose the constitutional amendment.
▪ Then they used scare tactics, telling the audience that fat people were apt to succumb to something called Sudden Death syndrome.
▪ This claim has never been proved and it may have been part of the Securitate's scare tactics.
▪ Whatever you may think about the morality of abortion, these are the most deplorable scare tactics.
▪ You also wrongly stated that we use scare tactics such as hostile looks or suggestive comments to keep women away.
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Scare Tactics

Scare Tactics is a hidden camera/ comedy horror television show, produced by Kevin Healey and Scott Hallock. Its first two seasons aired from April 2003 to December 2004. After a hiatus, the show returned for a third season, beginning July 9, 2008. The first season of the show was hosted by Shannen Doherty. Stephen Baldwin took her place in the middle of the second season. Since the beginning of the third season, the show has been hosted by Tracy Morgan. The fourth season began on October 6, 2009.

In Europe, the first season of the program aired on MTV Central from 2003 to 2004. The show is also broadcast in Australia on Fox8, in Canada on MTV, in India on AXN, in Russia on MTV Russia (only the first two seasons), in Turkey on Dream TV, in Poland on TV Puls, in Finland on Jim, in South Korea on Q TV, in Sweden initially on TV6, and currently on TV11.

Scare Tactics (comics)

Scare Tactics is a comic book series published by DC Comics. A total of twelve issues appeared, dated from December 1996 to March 1998. The series, written by Len Kaminski, was a part of DC's Weirdoverse group of titles.

Usage examples of "scare tactics".

And no voter is less susceptible than a dead one to a politician's grandiose promises, smear campaigns or cheap scare tactics.

So much for scare tactics, Rick said to himself, Skull One flying inverted and low over the tortuous landscape outside the city limits.