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Definition of Scare quote
1. Noun. The use of quotation marks to indicate that it is not the authors preferred terminology.
Definition of Scare quote
1. Noun. (chiefly in the plural) A quotation mark deliberately used to provoke a reaction or to indicate that the author does not approve of the term, rather than to identify a direct quotation. ¹
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