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scare quote is a noun meaning "the use of quotation marks to indicate that it is not the authors preferred terminology". It carries one recorded sense.
the use of quotation marks to indicate that it is not the authors preferred terminology
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for scare quote come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.
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