doom-mongering

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doom-mongering (usually uncountable, plural doom-mongerings)

  1. The spreading of doom or pessimism.
    • 2023 October 13, Rory Carroll, “‘The hope we had is gone’: how 20 months of stasis has paralysed Northern Ireland”, in The Guardian[1], →ISSN:
      Some shrug all this off as doom-mongering. Great Britain and Ireland have similar problems, so it is unfair to cast Northern Ireland as dysfunctional, said Ian Marshall, a farmer and former Ulster Unionist party politician who also served in the Irish Senate.

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