Quotation marks used to indicate non-standard usage
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 indicate that the author is using someone else's term, similar to preceding a phrase with the expression "so-called";[5] they may imply skepticism or disagreement, belief that the words are misused, or that the writer intends a meaning opposite to the words enclosed in quotes.[6] Whether quotation marks are considered scare quotes depends on context because scare quotes are not visually different from actual quotations. The use of scare quotes is sometimes discouraged in formal or academic writing.[7][8]
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