NOUN | communication | scare quote | the use of quotation marks to indicate that it is not the authors preferred terminology |
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Meaning | The use of quotation marks to indicate that it is not the authors preferred terminology. | |
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Broader | quotation mark, quote, inverted comma | A punctuation mark used to attribute the enclosed text to someone else |
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