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hawkist

hawkist noun: a hawk, someone who espouses hawkish politics, especially a hawkish foreign policy.

Noun

hawkist (plural hawkists)

  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).2004, David Pham, International Politico

Adjective

hawkist (comparative more hawkist, superlative most hawkist)

  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".1987, Gulab Mishra, Indo-Pakistan Relations, page 384

Forms of hawkist

Noun
pluralhawkists
Adjective
comparativemore hawkist
superlativemost hawkist

Origin of hawkist

From hawk + -ist.

Questions about hawkist

What does hawkist mean?
Hawkist means a hawk, someone who espouses hawkish politics, especially a hawkish foreign policy.
What part of speech is hawkist?
Hawkist can be a noun or an adjective.
What is the plural of hawkist?
The plural of hawkist is hawkists.

Words near hawkist in the dictionary

  1. Hawkinsville
  2. hawkish
  3. hawkishly
  4. hawkishness
  5. hawkism
  6. hawkist
  7. hawkists
  8. hawkless
  9. hawklet
  10. hawklets
  11. hawklike

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