scare tactic

"It was the worst use of scare tactics that I had seen in many years."

"We see this as more of a scare tactic than anything else," she said.

Others said they always thought such talk was a scare tactic, and nothing more.

The report also gave examples of what it called scare tactics.

Why let science get in the way of some really good scare tactics?

They didn't get away with scare tactics, or claims to offer something for nothing.

Comment: Pay not attention to the scare tactics by some on here.

Those kind of scare tactics have no place in a campaign.

One or two birds have met their end this year, however, after scare tactics failed.

No one benefits from propaganda based on scare tactics rather than the truth.