The revanchist rhetoric is fueling nationalist movements.
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Revanchist
//ɹəˈvɑnt͡ʃɪst//
Synonyms for "revanchist" (9 found)
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Closest matches (2)
Strong matches (3)
Related words (4)
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9 entriesTranslations
54 translations across 21 languages.
Belarusian
2 entries- рэваншы́сцкі adj (advocating a policy of revanche)
- рэваншы́ст noun (revanchist, vengeful person)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 復仇主義者 /复仇主义者 noun (revanchist, vengeful person)
Czech
3 entries- revanšistický adj (advocating a policy of revanche)
- revanšista noun (revanchist, vengeful person)
- revanšistka noun (revanchist, vengeful person)
Danish
2 entries- revanchistisk adj (advocating a policy of revanche)
- revanchist noun (revanchist, vengeful person)
Dutch
2 entries- revanchistisch adj (advocating a policy of revanche)
- revanchist noun (revanchist, vengeful person)
Finnish
2 entries- revansistinen adj (advocating a policy of revanche)
- revansisti noun (revanchist, vengeful person)
French
4 entries- revanchard adj (advocating a policy of revanche)
- revanchiste adj (advocating a policy of revanche)
- revanchard noun (revanchist, vengeful person)
- revancharde noun (revanchist, vengeful person)
German
3 entries- revanchistisch adj (advocating a policy of revanche)
- Revanchist noun (revanchist, vengeful person)
- Revanchistin noun (revanchist, vengeful person)
Greek
3 entries- ρεβανσιστικός adj (advocating a policy of revanche)
- ρεβανσίστρια noun (revanchist, vengeful person)
- ρεβανσιστής noun (revanchist, vengeful person)
Italian
2 entries- revanscistico adj (advocating a policy of revanche)
- revanscista noun (revanchist, vengeful person)
Japanese
1 entries- 報復主義者 noun (revanchist, vengeful person)
Korean
1 entries- 보복주의자 noun (revanchist, vengeful person)
Norwegian
2 entries- revansjistisk adj (advocating a policy of revanche)
- revansjist noun (revanchist, vengeful person)
Polish
4 entries- odwetowy adj (advocating a policy of revanche)
- rewanżystowski adj (advocating a policy of revanche)
- rewanżystyczny adj (advocating a policy of revanche)
- odwetowiec noun (revanchist, vengeful person)
Portuguese
2 entries- revanchista adj (advocating a policy of revanche)
- revanchista noun (revanchist, vengeful person)
Romanian
4 entries- revanșard adj (advocating a policy of revanche)
- revanșard noun (revanchist, vengeful person)
- revanșardă noun (revanchist, vengeful person)
- revanșist noun (revanchist, vengeful person)
Russian
3 entries- реванши́стский adj (advocating a policy of revanche)
- реванши́ст noun (revanchist, vengeful person)
- реванши́стка noun (revanchist, vengeful person)
Spanish
2 entries- revanchista adj (advocating a policy of revanche)
- revanchista noun (revanchist, vengeful person)
Swedish
2 entries- revanschistisk adj (advocating a policy of revanche)
- revanschist noun (revanchist, vengeful person)
Turkish
1 entries- rövanşist noun (revanchist, vengeful person)
Ukrainian
3 entries- реванши́стський adj (advocating a policy of revanche)
- реванши́ст noun (revanchist, vengeful person)
- реванши́стка noun (revanchist, vengeful person)
Sample sentences
7 total sentences available.
The next day, newspapers across the political spectrum will express varying degrees of outrage at the president's discourtesy, ignorance, and lack of style; one will accuse him of being a revanchist.
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Mr. Murphy tracks shifts in Justice Scalia's approach and what differentiates it from those of other textual revanchists, whether Justice Clarence Thomas or the legal scholar Robert Bork.
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No longer did young German tourists in France or Holland have to pretend that they were Swedes, and no longer did the governments of Eastern Europe blame all their problems on the “revanchist West Germans”.
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