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/əlˈɑrməst/ /əlˈɑrmɪst/ Listen

Alarmist

noun

A person who alarms others needlessly.

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"Alarmist" Quotes from Famous Books

... mob of people surrounded the hotel when Brett and Talbot arrived with their wounded prisoner. Fortunately the Chief of Police came in person to ascertain the cause of all this turmoil. The first alarmist report that reached his ears made out that a species of international warfare had broken out ...

— The Albert Gate Mystery - Being Further Adventures of Reginald Brett, Barrister Detective • Louis Tracy

... it's simple that alarmist's heated imagination, aggravated by what deloosions is born of the nosepaint he gets in Red Dog before ever he makes his Wolfville deboo at all. Two hookers of Old Jordan from Black Jack renders him so ...

— Faro Nell and Her Friends - Wolfville Stories • Alfred Henry Lewis

... incident was closed, and I did greatly compliment myself upon the sagacity and coolness of head with which I extricated myself from my pretty kettle of fish. For to have denounced myself as the real alarmist would have rendered the affair more, rather than less, discreditable to my feminine companion, and I should have been arraigned before the solemn bar of a police-court magistrate, who might even have made a Star ...

— Baboo Jabberjee, B.A. • F. Anstey

... to play the alarmist, but we would point out to Great Britain that she may at any time within the next few weeks be called upon to face a situation of great gravity, and we cannot help expressing our regret that when that time comes the country should be deprived of the advice, sound judgment and experience ...

— The Mischief Maker • E. Phillips Oppenheim

... Captain Marlowe to be a proverbial fire-eater, but in this case, at least, he was no alarmist. For, on the table, as he spoke, he laid ...

— The Treasure-Train • Arthur B. Reeve

Words linked to "Alarmist" : communicator, stirrer, scaremonger, alarm, alarmism