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scare quote

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scare quote
n.
Either of a pair of quotation marks used to emphasize a word or phrase or to indicate its special status, especially to express doubt about its validity or to criticize its use.
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Noun1.scare quote - the use of quotation marks to indicate that it is not the authors preferred terminology
inverted comma, quotation mark, quote - a punctuation mark used to attribute the enclosed text to someone else


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