as in hawks
one who urges or attempts to cause a war
fortunately, the warmongers met with overwhelming opposition
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Recent Examples of warmongers
Mayor Mamdani is free from the pressures of lobbyists and warmongers who try to cultivate and flip rising stars.
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Literary Hub, 2 Jan. 2026
People of peace have no PR machine and no media budget - so media narratives are skewed toward warmongers.
—Hollie Silverman, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Nov. 2025
That reference to unspecified warmongers hewed to her unfortunate pattern of spreading conspiracy theories.
—Andreas Kluth, Twin Cities, 17 Aug. 2025
Literary Hub, 2 Jan. 2026
People of peace have no PR machine and no media budget - so media narratives are skewed toward warmongers.
—Hollie Silverman, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Nov. 2025
That reference to unspecified warmongers hewed to her unfortunate pattern of spreading conspiracy theories.
—Andreas Kluth, Twin Cities, 17 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for warmongers
hawks
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In 2010, Barack Obama presented the replacement for SORT, New START, to the Senate, where GOP hawks blocked it until Obama agreed to spend tens of billions of dollars for future nuclear-modernization programs—in effect a shakedown for the nuclear-weapons industry in exchange for ratification.—
Tom Nichols,
The Atlantic,
3 Feb. 2026
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This woodpecker has a wide vocabulary of other sounds, including screams if being captured by predators, an elevated alarm call often given when predator hawks are near or rapidly drumming on dead hollow limbs during territorial disputes or to attract mates.—
Ernie Cowan,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
1 Feb. 2026
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“Warmongers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/warmongers. Accessed 7 Feb. 2026.
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