hawkish

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Scrabble points
20
Words With Friends
18
Letters
7
Pronunciation
/ˈhɔːkɪʃ/(UK)
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/ˈhɔːkɪʃ/(UK) · /ˈhɑːkɪʃ/

Definition of hawkish

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Resembling a hawk in appearance or behaviour.
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adj

  1. Resembling a hawk in appearance or behaviour.
  2. Supportive of warlike foreign policy; bellicose; inclined toward military action.
    “The Prime Minister could count on the support of a hawkish majority in Parliament to support the invasion.”
    “This was not the first disagreement between the ultra-hawkish Bolton and the occasionally more intervention-skeptic Trump.”
    “But before the letter was finalized, it drew denunciation from the hawkish American Israel Public Affairs Committee.”
    “The Russian authorities said on Sunday that they had begun a murder investigation into the killing of Daria Dugina, 29, a hawkish political commentator who was the daughter of the philosopher Aleksandr Dugin, long a leading proponent of an imperialist Russia who has been urging the Kremlin to escalate its assault on Ukraine.”
  3. Favouring increasing interest rates; inclined towards increasing interest rates.
    “The Federal Reserve's recent statement on the slowing of inflation was interpreted as hawkish by the market.”

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Etymology

From hawk + -ish.

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