HyperDic: scare_quote

English > 1 sense of the expression scare quote:
NOUNcommunicationscare quotethe use of quotation marks to indicate that it is not the authors preferred terminology
English > scare quote: 1 sense > noun 1, communication
MeaningThe use of quotation marks to indicate that it is not the authors preferred terminology.
Broaderquotation mark, quote, inverted commaA punctuation mark used to attribute the enclosed text to someone else

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