Hawkist
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Hawkist is a noun meaning A hawk, someone who espouses hawkish politics, especially a hawkish foreign policy.
Meaning
A hawk, someone who espouses hawkish politics, especially a hawkish foreign policy.
Example Sentences
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".
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).
Word Forms
- hawkists
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include hawkery, hawk, make-hawk, hawkeye, hawking, heroner.
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