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Noun Concept
Categories: Rhetoric, Punctuation, Articles with short description, Doubt
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scare quote  scare quotes  Sarcasm quotes  Sarcastic quotation marks  Scare-quote
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The use of quotation marks to indicate that it is not the authors preferred terminology WordNet 3.0
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The use of quotation marks to indicate that it is not the authors preferred terminology WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
Scare quotes are quotation marks that writers place around a word or phrase to signal that they are using it in an ironic, referential, or otherwise non-standard sense. Wikipedia
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quotation mark
WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
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scare quote
Wikipedia
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scare quotes
Wikidata
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scare quotes
Wikipedia Redirections
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Sarcasm quotes, Sarcastic quotation marks, Scare-quote, Scare-quotes, Scare marks, Scare quotation, scare quote, Scare quote marks, Scare quoted, Scarequote, Scarequotes, Scary quotes, Shudder quote, shudder quotes, sneer quotes, Verbal quotes
Wikidata Alias
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shudder quotes, sneer quotes

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