Hawkist
adj, noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A hawk, someone who espouses hawkish politics, especially a hawkish foreign policy.
"In America the anti-war activists protested the hawkists with violence. In 1969 President Richard Nixon Vietnamized the Vietnam war after the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese bo doi suffered heavy casualties during the Tet Offensive (1968)."
- 1 hawkish
"The Socialist Party's Janata said in its editorial that it would be better to talk to Bhutto than to push him into a corner "leading to his replacement by a less mercurial but more hawkist leader"."
Example
More examples"In America the anti-war activists protested the hawkists with violence. In 1969 President Richard Nixon Vietnamized the Vietnam war after the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese bo doi suffered heavy casualties during the Tet Offensive (1968)."
Etymology
From hawk + -ist.
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