Scare quotes - Wikipedia

This article is about the typographic practice. For the use of quotations and headlines to scare readers, see Scare-line. Scare quotes (also called shudder quotes,[1][2] sneer quotes,[3] and quibble marks) 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.[4][where?] Scare quotes may indicate t

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"Scare quotes are also sometimes called orphan quotes. The spoken equivalent of scare quotes are known as air quotes or finger quotes."