Usually means: Quotation marks signaling skepticism, irony.
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  1. scare quote: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  2. scare quote: Vocabulary.com
  3. scare quote: Wiktionary
  4. scare quote: Dictionary.com
  5. scare quote: Rhymezone
  6. scare quote: FreeDictionary.org
  7. scare quote: Mnemonic Dictionary
  8. scare quote: TheFreeDictionary.com

(Note: See scare_quotes as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (scare quote)

noun:  (chiefly in the plural) A quotation mark deliberately used to provoke a reaction or to indicate that the author does not approve of a term or clause, rather than to identify a direct quotation.

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