英语词汇“doom-monger”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

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doom-monger

doom-monger n. chiefly depreciative a person who predicts disaster or misfortune.

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1941 L. Del Rey in Unknown Worlds Dec. 107/2 He..brought a hamlike fist down on Phineas' back... ‘Phin Potts, you old doommonger! Welcome back!’

1953 New Castle (Pa.) News 10 Apr. 4/7 Crepe hangers and doom-mongers will always look for catastrophe and perdition in an attempt to scare the wits out of us.

1970 F. Herbert New World or No World v. 126 Do you think the efforts of things like Earth Day..will get things going on a massive enough scale to reverse this tide, or are you one of the doom mongers?

2009 T. Footman Noughties Introd. p. xiii Doom-mongers asserted that the resultant confusion would cause ATMs to shut down, hospital equipment to fail and airplanes to drop from the skies across the world.

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单词	doom-monger
释义	> as lemmas doom-monger doom-monger n. chiefly depreciative a person who predicts disaster or misfortune. ΚΠ 1941 L. Del Rey in Unknown Worlds Dec. 107/2 He..brought a hamlike fist down on Phineas' back... ‘Phin Potts, you old doommonger! Welcome back!’ 1953 New Castle (Pa.) News 10 Apr. 4/7 Crepe hangers and doom-mongers will always look for catastrophe and perdition in an attempt to scare the wits out of us. 1970 F. Herbert New World or No World v. 126 Do you think the efforts of things like Earth Day..will get things going on a massive enough scale to reverse this tide, or are you one of the doom mongers? 2009 T. Footman Noughties Introd. p. xiii Doom-mongers asserted that the resultant confusion would cause ATMs to shut down, hospital equipment to fail and airplanes to drop from the skies across the world. extracted from doomn. < as lemmas
随便看	to hold a thing in contempt to hold a thing in etc reverence to hold a thing in great reverence to hold a thing in reverence to hold a thing in the palm of one's hand to hold a thing responsible to hold a way to hold aback to hold all the aces to hold all the cards to hold aloof to hold aloof from to hold an open house to hold at etc reputation to hold at fable to hold at gaze to hold at great reputation to hold at no reputation to hold at school to hold at stave's end to hold at the long saw to hold away to hold back to hold big guns to hold by the ears