"scare tactic" meaning in All languages combined

See scare tactic on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: scare tactics [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} scare tactic (plural scare tactics)
  1. (psychology) A type of psychological manipulation regrading a particular issue in which fear or alarm is aroused. Categories (topical): Psychology
    Sense id: en-scare_tactic-en-noun-5d8yEgxf Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Topics: human-sciences, psychology, sciences

Inflected forms

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "scare tactics",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "scare tactic (plural scare tactics)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Psychology",
          "orig": "en:Psychology",
          "parents": [
            "Social sciences",
            "Sciences",
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2018 January 2, Samantha D. Gottlieb, “9. The “Tragically Underused” Vaccine”, in Not Quite a Cancer Vaccine. Selling HPV and Cervical Cancer, New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 143:",
          "text": "Invoking cancer is a scare tactic, not a health education strategy. The juxtaposition in the various iterations of Gardasil advertisements of the word “cancer” and the message “you can do something” put parents in a blameworthy position. The current advertisements for Gardasil 9 hardly mention the vaccine. Instead, in these ads children blame their parents for their failure to protect them from a potentially fatal illness.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A type of psychological manipulation regrading a particular issue in which fear or alarm is aroused."
      ],
      "id": "en-scare_tactic-en-noun-5d8yEgxf",
      "links": [
        [
          "psychology",
          "psychology"
        ],
        [
          "psychological",
          "psychological"
        ],
        [
          "manipulation",
          "manipulation"
        ],
        [
          "regrading",
          "regrading"
        ],
        [
          "particular",
          "particular"
        ],
        [
          "issue",
          "issue"
        ],
        [
          "fear",
          "fear"
        ],
        [
          "alarm",
          "alarm"
        ],
        [
          "arouse",
          "arouse"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(psychology) A type of psychological manipulation regrading a particular issue in which fear or alarm is aroused."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "human-sciences",
        "psychology",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "scare tactic"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "scare tactics",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "scare tactic (plural scare tactics)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "en:Psychology"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2018 January 2, Samantha D. Gottlieb, “9. The “Tragically Underused” Vaccine”, in Not Quite a Cancer Vaccine. Selling HPV and Cervical Cancer, New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 143:",
          "text": "Invoking cancer is a scare tactic, not a health education strategy. The juxtaposition in the various iterations of Gardasil advertisements of the word “cancer” and the message “you can do something” put parents in a blameworthy position. The current advertisements for Gardasil 9 hardly mention the vaccine. Instead, in these ads children blame their parents for their failure to protect them from a potentially fatal illness.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A type of psychological manipulation regrading a particular issue in which fear or alarm is aroused."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "psychology",
          "psychology"
        ],
        [
          "psychological",
          "psychological"
        ],
        [
          "manipulation",
          "manipulation"
        ],
        [
          "regrading",
          "regrading"
        ],
        [
          "particular",
          "particular"
        ],
        [
          "issue",
          "issue"
        ],
        [
          "fear",
          "fear"
        ],
        [
          "alarm",
          "alarm"
        ],
        [
          "arouse",
          "arouse"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(psychology) A type of psychological manipulation regrading a particular issue in which fear or alarm is aroused."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "human-sciences",
        "psychology",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "scare tactic"
}

Download raw JSONL data for scare tactic meaning in All languages combined (1.7kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.