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[citation needed]) 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] Scare quotes may i