doom-monger

They charge he is a professional doom-monger who was banging on about recession for years as the economy boomed.

She could hardly believe it - and the doom-monger buried somewhere deep inside refused to - but it was true.

He is concerned about what humans are doing to the planet but he is not a doom-monger.

Even if it's there, you'll never he able to reach it, the doom-monger told her, but Jessie barely heard it.

Marc Faber has a reputation as a bit of a doom-monger, but he has really surpassed himself with this one.

In apocalyptic fiction, climate change is steadily replacing nuclear warfare as the doom-monger's cataclysmic threat of choice.

Loathsome as the role of doom-monger may be, experience counsels caution about the McEnroe metamorphosis.

Tim Morgan, this column’s favourite doom-monger, believes that we could be heading for debt-driven disaster even after post-credit crunch deleveraging.

Jon Moulton, founder of the private equity house Alchemy and a notable economic doom-monger, says that things can only get worse for the hedge funds.

I call National Rail Enquiries, ignore the "turn back NOW!" warnings of the automated doom-monger.

The trend has followed precisely the course predicted, if not even a little faster than Aldous Huxley was prepared to project, in case he was seen as a doom-monger.

Miyazaki's 2008 film "Ponyo" featured a catastrophic tsunami, but the animator insists that including disasters in his films only makes him a realist able to highlight the fragility of life rather than a prophetic, doom-monger.

Although often portrayed as a doom-monger due to his bearish macro-economic views, Mr Woodford remains extremely upbeat about the prospects for the holdings in his own portfolio, which he believes should remain resilient amid the problems we face.

Elsewhere, in an Independent Voices session, Paul Mason, Newsnight's resident doom-monger, took a pell-mell canter through a range of linked terrains – the global financial crisis, the Arab Spring, the London riots, the impact of social networking.

One man who has made his name in recent years as a doom-monger, Nouriel Roubini, an economist at New York University, recently suggested that recovery from recession was far from imminent, arguing that “it's going to last another six to nine months”.

My companion, B, is a bit of a doom-monger even in a boom, and she’d just read in the paper that Britain was about to become a developing nation; so we must take what she says about the view from Rotunda with a pinch of salt.