HyperDic: scare_quote

English > 1 sense of the expression *scare quote*:
NOUN	communication	scare quote	the use of quotation marks to indicate that it is not the authors preferred terminology

English > *scare quote*: 1 sense > noun 1, communication
Meaning	The use of quotation marks to indicate that it is not the authors preferred terminology.
Broader	quotation mark, quote, inverted comma	A punctuation mark used to attribute the enclosed text to someone else