as in hawk
one who urges or attempts to cause a war fortunately, the warmongers met with overwhelming opposition

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Recent Examples of warmonger The movie undoubtedly lays the wood on several in Bush’s inner circle — Thandie Newton’s impression of Condoleezza Rice is particularly mean — as W. ponders what happens when a useful idiot falls under the sway of warmongers with bad intel. Will Leitch, Vulture, 17 Feb. 2025 Predictably, Washington's warmongers are apoplectic. Matt Robison, Newsweek, 21 Nov. 2024 During the campaign, Trump and Vance cast themselves as men of peace while deriding their opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, and her allies as warmongers. Peter D. Feaver, Foreign Affairs, 6 Nov. 2024 Kickstart Your Day with The Morning Jolt Young people will have to trust me: This is just what the Left said: that the Kremlin was peace-loving, or peace-seeking, while American warmongers made the world dangerous. Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 28 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for warmonger
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Noun
  • Republicans are using the conferences and additional press calls to show that their party is united, having centrist lawmakers speak one day and then more conservative fiscal hawks the next.
    Lauren Green, The Washington Examiner, 16 Oct. 2025
  • The hawk underwent surgery to remove the BB, but her right eye had little to no vision due to the injury, the organization said.
    Caelyn Pender, Mercury News, 16 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Pakistan has accused Afghanistan’s Taliban government of offering a safe haven to militants carrying out cross-border attacks.
    Ben Smith, semafor.com, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Israel freed nearly 2,000 Palestinians, including minors and militants' bodies.
    Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 14 Oct. 2025

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“Warmonger.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/warmonger. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.

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