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Meaning of "scare quotes" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SCARE QUOTES

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SCARE QUOTES

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Scare quotes is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES SCARE QUOTES MEAN IN ENGLISH?

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Scare quotes

Scare quotes or shudder quotes are quotation marks placed around a word or phrase to imply that it may not signify its apparent meaning or that it is not necessarily the way the quoting person would express its concept. The quotes serve a function similar to verbally prefixing a phrase with "so-called". When referred to as "scare quotes", the quotation marks are suggested to imply skepticism or disagreement with the quoted terminology.

Definition of scare quotes in the English dictionary

The definition of scare quotes in the dictionary is quotation marks placed around a word or phrase to indicate that it should not be taken literally or automatically accepted as true.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SCARE QUOTES

scarce as hen´s teeth
scarcely
scarcement
scarcities
scarcity
scarcity value
scare
scare story
scare tactics
scare the pants off
scarecrow
scared
scared to death
scaredy
scaredy-cat
scarehead
scaremonger
scaremongering
scarer
scarey

WORDS THAT END LIKE SCARE QUOTES

case notes
compare notes
lecture notes
liner notes
litotes
notes
programme notes
Saint Simon Zelotes
shorthand notes
Simon Zelotes
sleeve notes
totes

Synonyms and antonyms of scare quotes in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «scare quotes» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SCARE QUOTES

Find out the translation of scare quotes to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of scare quotes from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «scare quotes» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

恐慌报价
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

comillas
570 millions of speakers

English

scare quotes
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

डराने उद्धरण
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

ونقلت ذعر
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

кавычками
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

aspas
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ভয়ংকর উদ্ধৃতি
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

guillemets
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Menakutkan sebut harga
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Angst Zitate
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

恐怖引用符
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

공포 지수
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Ajrih ajrih
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

báo giá sợ hãi
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பயமுறுத்தும் மேற்கோள்கள்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

घाबरण्याचे कोट
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Korkutan alıntılar
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

virgolette
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

przestraszyć cytaty
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

лапками
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

citate sperie
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

εισαγωγικά τρομάξει
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

bang aanhalings
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

skrämsel citationstecken
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

skremme sitater
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of scare quotes

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SCARE QUOTES»

The term «scare quotes» is normally little used and occupies the 128.142 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SCARE QUOTES» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «scare quotes» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «scare quotes» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about scare quotes

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SCARE QUOTES»

Discover the use of scare quotes in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to scare quotes and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Scare Quotes from Shakespeare: Marx, Keynes, and the ...
This book argues that moments of allusion to the supernatural in Shakespeare are occasions where Karl Marx and John Maynard Keynes register the perseverance of haunted structures in modern culture.
Martin Harries, 2000
2
Critical Theory and Performance
"Race" as a concept has clearly long justified the scare quotes by which it is here circumscribed, but history has not always rendered it so. Over the past several centuries, many impressionistic concepts of human difference accrued to the word ...
Janelle G. Reinelt, Joseph R. Roach, 2007
3
Manifesto of a Passionate Moderate: Unfashionable Essays
Their confidence in what passes for true declines, and with it their willingness to use the words "truth," "evidence," etc., without the precaution of scare quotes. As those scare quotes become ubiquitous, so people's confidence in the concepts of  ...
Susan Haack, 2000
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The Surface and the Abyss: Nietzsche as Philosopher of Mind ...
The primary interpretation becomes a measuring rod against which certain interpretations are ruled to be 'wrong' (in scare quotes – as odd, far-fetched, strange, or silly), or simply wrong (bluntly and without quotes – as misleading, incorrect, ...
Peter Bornedal, 2010
5
The Emergence of Sexuality: Historical Epistemology and the ...
HOW TO DO THE HISTORY OF PSYCHOANALYSIS first essay the words " normal," "pathological," and "perversion" often appear in scare quotes or qualified by a phrase like "what we would describe as"; as we move through the other essays, ...
Arnold Ira Davidson, 2004
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Reading Shakespeare's Will: The Theology of Figure from ...
And because it refuses to dupe us, we'll forgo the scare quotes: Indian beauty is no pretender to that which the old age counted fair; instead, it is precisely the legitimacy of what passed for fair that is now in question- it is sweet "beauty" that has ...
Lisa Freinkel, 2013
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Home Economics: Nationalism and the Making of 'migrant ...
1 Home(lessness) and the Naturalization of 'Difference' 1 2 3 I have placed the idea of national communities within scare quotes to signify that I am interested in problematizing its naturalization. Because of my desire to trouble other ...
Nandita Rani Sharma, 2006
8
Science without Myth: On Constructions, Reality, and Social ...
In other words, we contend that the sociology of knowledge is concerned with the analysis of the social construction of reality. (3, emphasis in original) But there is something unsatisfying about this. Here "reality" is in scare quotes, as is ...
Sergio Sismondo, 1996
9
Kant's Theory of A Priori Knowledge
"Things in themselves" is in scare-quotes in this sentence because it is used more in light of Guyer's view of things than of Kant's. It conforms to Kant's use in the sense that the things are considered to have the properties of space, time, and the ...
Robert Greenberg, 2010
10
Space Weapons: Deterrence Or Delusion?
Sometimes 'scare-quotes' are used to do this, just as this sentence demonstrates the notion of scare-quotes to anyone not familiar with them. Where such an explanation is not given, either because it belongs, properly, to a later section of the ...
Rip Bulkeley, Graham Spinardi, 1986

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SCARE QUOTES»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term scare quotes is used in the context of the following news items.
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China's thawing, yet still very worthy of scare quotes, “market”
China's thawing, yet still very worthy of scare quotes, “market” · David Keohane. Spending some time as AV's Bombay wallah. Noticeably sweatier but not much ... «FT Alphaville, Jul 15»
2
'Physician-assisted suicide' gets scare quotes, but 'aid-in-dying …
"Aid-in-dying" gets no scare quotes, while "religious freedom" always does? The reader ... So why does "physician-assisted suicide" demand quote marks, while ... «GetReligion, May 15»
3
“Religious Freedom” (With Correctly-Used Scare Quotes)
There are lots of examples of scare quotes being misused, as though they conveyed emphasis rather than irony. But in an article that appeared today on the ... «Patheos, Apr 15»
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Dear 'Diane Ablonczy': Don't put scare quotes around 'rule of law'
Dear 'Diane Ablonczy': Don't put scare quotes around 'rule of law'. By. Scott Vrooman. | April 23, 2015. Print · Write to editor · Support rabble · Corrections. «rabble.ca, Apr 15»
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Afternoon links: The First Amendment shouldn't need scare quotes
Afternoon links: The First Amendment shouldn't need scare quotes. Share on Facebook · Share on Twitter · Share on Google Plus · Share via Email. «Washington Post, Apr 15»
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(And Goodstein has pulled the exact same scare-quote stunt before.) ... bashing terms like "ultra-conservative" are presented as fact, no scare quotes needed. «NewsBusters, Apr 15»
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Why Republicans Lost The Battle Of Indiana
Phrases like “religious freedom” appearing in scare quotes but not “marriage equality” or “abortion rights.” On Indiana, the coverage was about as subtle as a ... «Daily Caller, Apr 15»
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Flashback! When religious freedom didn't have scare quotes in The …
As the media firestorm continues in Indiana, your GetReligionistas have heard from readers asking to know the essential differences between the Indiana law ... «GetReligion, Mar 15»
9
Superscholar.org introduces an Infographic on Eastern Philosophy
Hmm… I almost put up scare quotes around 'Eastern Philosophy' – but then I thought I'd just put them up around 'Eastern' – and then just around 'Philosophy' ... «Patheos, Nov 14»
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The FTC's Thoughts On Why "Unlimited Data" Shouldn't Need Scare
United States: The FTC's Thoughts On Why "Unlimited Data" Shouldn't Need Scare Quotes. Last Updated: November 15 2014. Article by James A. Sherer. «Mondaq News Alerts, Nov 14»

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