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Definition of doom-monger in English: doom-mongernoun A person who predicts disaster. the situation is nowhere near as critical as doom-mongers will have you believe Example sentencesExamples - I wasn't antiwar, and I don't think I'm a doom-monger, but I believe there are genuine reasons for concern about the course of events in that country.
- Never quite admits the doom-mongers of the 70s were just plain wrong, does he?
- They confounded the doom-mongers who had predicted massive fraud, civil unrest and the early demise of the entire common currency project.
- McGuire is resigned to being called a doom-monger and makes no apology for raising another bleak spectre: a volcanic winter.
- Contrary to the impression created by the doom-mongers, there has been a dramatic decline in smoking since the dangers first became widely publicized.
- Climate change, say the doom-mongers, could put hundreds of resorts out of business.
- Every day of the week some green doom-monger can be heard in lament for the dwindling or extinction of some bird or other.
- Cheap wine, predict the doom-mongers in the media, is about to become a thing of the past.
- But 12 months later, the doom-mongers appear to have been proved wrong.
- The doom-mongers say this is just another technological tyranny.
- In one item a radio interviewer confronted a professional doom-monger who announces that mankind is "nature's mistake".
- It seems obvious - particularly to doom-mongers - that world oil consumption can only increase.
- The doom-mongers predicted the death of local newspapers years ago.
- Kevin Sinfield has hit back at the doom-mongers who claim Leeds are a spent force this season.
- People would have dismissed him a few years ago as a humourless doom-monger.
- Most people choose to continue with life despite the climate change doom-mongers.
- No sooner are the latest improvements in grades announced than the doom-mongers grumble about falling standards.
- In this case of alarmism, people are quite happy to ignore the doom-mongers because of the transparent utility of the technology.
- My suspicions don't mean that I am a doom-monger or cynical pessimist, but utopian thinking hasn't led to very happy ends in the past.
Synonyms alarmist, prophet of doom, cassandra, voice of doom
Definition of doom-monger in US English: doom-mongernoun A person who predicts disaster. the situation is nowhere near as critical as doom-mongers will have you believe Example sentencesExamples - Most people choose to continue with life despite the climate change doom-mongers.
- But 12 months later, the doom-mongers appear to have been proved wrong.
- It seems obvious - particularly to doom-mongers - that world oil consumption can only increase.
- The doom-mongers predicted the death of local newspapers years ago.
- McGuire is resigned to being called a doom-monger and makes no apology for raising another bleak spectre: a volcanic winter.
- Never quite admits the doom-mongers of the 70s were just plain wrong, does he?
- My suspicions don't mean that I am a doom-monger or cynical pessimist, but utopian thinking hasn't led to very happy ends in the past.
- In one item a radio interviewer confronted a professional doom-monger who announces that mankind is "nature's mistake".
- People would have dismissed him a few years ago as a humourless doom-monger.
- Climate change, say the doom-mongers, could put hundreds of resorts out of business.
- They confounded the doom-mongers who had predicted massive fraud, civil unrest and the early demise of the entire common currency project.
- The doom-mongers say this is just another technological tyranny.
- Every day of the week some green doom-monger can be heard in lament for the dwindling or extinction of some bird or other.
- Kevin Sinfield has hit back at the doom-mongers who claim Leeds are a spent force this season.
- In this case of alarmism, people are quite happy to ignore the doom-mongers because of the transparent utility of the technology.
- Contrary to the impression created by the doom-mongers, there has been a dramatic decline in smoking since the dangers first became widely publicized.
- Cheap wine, predict the doom-mongers in the media, is about to become a thing of the past.
- No sooner are the latest improvements in grades announced than the doom-mongers grumble about falling standards.
- I wasn't antiwar, and I don't think I'm a doom-monger, but I believe there are genuine reasons for concern about the course of events in that country.
Synonyms alarmist, prophet of doom, cassandra, voice of doom
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