hawkish
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 20
- Words With Friends
- 18
- Letters
- 7
/ˈhɔːkɪʃ/(UK)
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/ˈhɔːkɪʃ/(UK) · /ˈhɑːkɪʃ/
Definition of hawkish
3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
adj
- Resembling a hawk in appearance or behaviour.
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adj
- Resembling a hawk in appearance or behaviour.
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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.”
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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.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From hawk + -ish.
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