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.
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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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for warmonger
Noun
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Johnson’s versatility as a run stopper and now a playmaking ball hawk will be crucial to TCU finishing the season strong, starting with Saturday’s matchup at West Virginia.—
Steven Johnson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
23 Oct. 2025
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By the late 1970s, my father had earned a name as a young public intellectual and Cold War hawk.—
Nicholas Thompson,
The Atlantic,
23 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Netanyahu's announcement followed his meeting with senior security ministers to discuss a response to what Israel said was Hamas' attempt to stage the return of the partial remains of a hostage whose body the militants were supposed to hand over under the terms of the ceasefire.—
NPR's International Desk,
NPR,
28 Oct. 2025
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Hamas militants carry a body retrieved from a tunnel in an area north of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on October 28, 2025.—
Callum Sutherland,
Time,
28 Oct. 2025
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“Warmonger.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/warmonger. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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