Scare Quotes How To Use. Use quotation marks the first time the word or phrase is used; Stop that, you're scaring the children.
A more common use of the scare quote is to suggest that the word or phrase should not be taken at face value. Unlike ordinary quotation marks, scare quotes may be used to convey an ironic, skeptical, or even derisive stance toward the word or phrase they enclose; The serbs are closing in on the safe haven of goražde.
