scare quote

But most of all he likes to use scare quotes.

Stove contended that these authors got around this problem by using these success words, but in scare quotes, e.g., "knowledge".

And in Pessl s case, Nabokovian doesn t need scare quotes.

In this case, unlike many other applications of scare quotes, the enclosed word is an actual quotation from another source.

So if you start using scare quotes, it may be the words you do not put them round which become the problem.

When he mentions the evidence of global warming, he puts "evidence" in scare quotes.

Quotes indicating verbal irony, or other special use, are sometimes called scare quotes.

And in Pessl's case, Nabokovian doesn't need scare quotes.

Until we progressives are able to use words like truth, right and good without scare quotes, we can expect to continue to struggle politically.

The scare quotes are apt, because the question doesn't make sense.