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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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
Cite this Entry
“Warmongers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/warmongers. Accessed 25 Feb. 2026.
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