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
Already, Cuba’s top diplomats have been sharing propaganda content discrediting Machado as a warmonger.
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Nora Gamez Torres, Miami Herald, 10 Oct. 2025
Tho declined the award, but the decision to award Kissinger shocked many of his critics who saw him as a warmonger.
—Kate Bartlett, NPR, 9 Oct. 2025
That reference to unspecified warmongers hewed to her unfortunate pattern of spreading conspiracy theories.
—Andreas Kluth, Twin Cities, 17 Aug. 2025
The real divide is between those who casually encourage violence, and those who seek to prevent it — between warmongers and peacemakers.
—Asher Notheis, The Washington Examiner, 16 June 2025
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Nora Gamez Torres, Miami Herald, 10 Oct. 2025
Tho declined the award, but the decision to award Kissinger shocked many of his critics who saw him as a warmonger.
—Kate Bartlett, NPR, 9 Oct. 2025
That reference to unspecified warmongers hewed to her unfortunate pattern of spreading conspiracy theories.
—Andreas Kluth, Twin Cities, 17 Aug. 2025
The real divide is between those who casually encourage violence, and those who seek to prevent it — between warmongers and peacemakers.
—Asher Notheis, The Washington Examiner, 16 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for warmonger
Noun
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At least in the world of counterfactuals, there is an alternative reality in which a Democratic President, during the nineteen-nineties or the two-thousands, defied the deficit hawks and also adopted a more skeptical approach to globalization.—
John Cassidy,
New Yorker,
23 Feb. 2026
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By mid-February, raptors, including hawks and eagles, begin migrating north.—
Jessica Safavimehr,
Southern Living,
22 Feb. 2026
Noun
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At the same time, the barrage of vitriol unleashed by China castigating Takaichi as a warmongering militarist includes a reprehensible threat by the Chinese consul-general in Osaka about beheading Takaichi.—
Jeff Kingston,
Time,
30 Nov. 2025
Noun
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The airstrikes came after a month of deadly attacks within Pakistan, the most recent being the killing of two soldiers, including a lieutenant colonel, by militants in the country’s northwest on Saturday, officials said.—
Sophia Saifi,
CNN Money,
22 Feb. 2026
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Habib Ullah, a local tribal elder, said those killed in the strikes were not militants.—
Munir Ahmed,
Los Angeles Times,
22 Feb. 2026
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“Warmonger.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/warmonger. Accessed 1 Mar. 2026.
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