Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
scaremongering
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ They had not been given details of the legislation and so were unable to counter opposition scaremongering.
▪ This I believe stems largely from scaremongering and misleading information given to the industry from various sources.
▪ We hear scaremongering that a minimum wage will destroy jobs.
▪ Without scaremongering, we fear very much for the needs of bus passengers.
Wiktionary
scaremongering
vb. (present participle of scaremonger English)
Usage examples of "scaremongering".
In the Version A world-view, the US has become America the Panicked, where selfserving lawyers and journalists have created a lucrative industry of scaremongering, hunting down dangers rare or nonexistent.
You’ve never seen anything like it, the scaremongering and bullshitting that went down.
Admiral Bromwich, I intend to disprove this absurd scaremongering hypothesis, point by point.
Even if they’d had him breaking rocks from dawn to dusk, he probably would have been able to day-dream productively, and for all Quint’s scaremongering he’d doubted it would come to that.
Surely you don't really wish to become barbarians again, based on the fears of a scaremongering hedge wizard with a grudge?