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Definition of hawkish in English: hawkishadjective ˈhɔːkɪʃ 1Resembling a hawk in nature or appearance. Example sentencesExamples - Beatrice's father was a wiry, elderly-looking gentleman with a frizzy gray goatee and a bent, hawkish nose.
- They have hawkish noses, receding chins and luxuriant mullets that fall to their jeans.
- A hawkish nose stretched out from his face and golden-silver hair fell around his shoulders.
- His nose was hawkish but it suited him, as did the high cheekbones and cynical quirk of his mouth.
- Tall and slim, his neatly-parted silver hair and rimless spectacles sit atop a hawkish nose and ice-blue eyes that are almost a caricature of the Prussian officer.
- His hawkish features narrowed as they studied me.
- He leaned forward, his sharp, hawkish nose looking almost absurdly dangerous.
- I really did want to learn the instrument and I was scared to death that the tall, slender woman with the hawkish features wouldn't like me and would call the whole thing off.
- He had a hawkish nose, a feature that marred his otherwise handsome face.
- Yet above that hawkish nose, his eyes still held that knowing look.
- For his grand home-coming, the characteristic hawkish frown and razor sharp intellect were cast aside to reveal the softer side of the man who brought history to the masses.
- It's an unglamorous performance and the director makes full use of her hard, hawkish features.
2Advocating an aggressive or warlike policy, especially in foreign affairs. the administration's hawkish stance Example sentencesExamples - If anything, the Democrats have the more hawkish record on foreign policy.
- A few months ago his views were all the rage in hawkish circles.
- Some began a move to the right, to an even harder and more hawkish anticommunism.
- He became known for his hawkish views against the Soviet Union.
- Such statements come from hawkish traditionalists peeved that they didn't get the all-out war they wanted.
- The South is more hawkish on foreign policy, according to the data, while the East and West Coast states are the most dovish.
- NATO ally Turkey has shown no sympathy for the hawkish stance taken by London and Washington.
- In a hawkish, emotional speech to the Romanian parliament, Tony Blair said Milosevic was the real target of the war.
- He needs support within the army, and many senior generals are hawkish.
- He's the man who helped persuade hawkish editors at influential Newsweek magazine to oppose the Vietnam War.
- When that man was in charge of monetary policy, he was known as the most hawkish Reserve Bank governor in the entire developed world.
- Though hawkish himself, he is regarded as pragmatic in his approach.
- I'm probably the most hawkish person I know on the subject.
- After the cold war, leaders who had been brought up on a diet of protest and peace marches became the most hawkish political generation yet.
- Even in hawkish circles, the closer war has come, the less enthusiasm there seems to be for it.
- Even the more hawkish leaders have had peace as their priority, often making the boldest concessions.
- His remarks impute to Jewishness itself a hawkish pro-Israeli bias.
- What I find illuminating - and, frankly, horrifying - is that there are people for whom he is not hawkish enough.
- The new cabinet has something of a hawkish feel to it.
Synonyms aggressive, belligerent, warmongering, warring, bellicose, pugnacious, combative, bloodthirsty, gung-ho, jingoistic, sabre-rattling
Derivativesadverb The paper started out hawkishly, echoing many of Bush's arguments and calling war ‘an operation essential to American security’. Example sentencesExamples - He is needle-sharp, ebullient and hawkishly bright.
- Here journalists could be hawkishly monitored.
- The 62-year-old Pacino looks very different from the hawkishly greying Don imagined at the end of The Godfather Part II.
- It's a mistake to think that we can solve the problem simply by speaking more hawkishly and voting with Republicans on military matters.
noun All of that newfound hawkishness in Boston surely sounded odd to many of the decidedly anti-war delegates. Example sentencesExamples - I was at the peak of my hawkishness about the cold war, and that was the perspective from which I was teaching.
- My point, though, was not to suggest that hawkishness is always wrong.
- Her school is conservative, but hardly unique in its hawkishness.
- He has demonstrated by his hawkishness on Kosovo and Afghanistan that he is willing to use force to defend American ideas and interests.
Definition of hawkish in US English: hawkishadjectiveˈhôkiSH 1Resembling a hawk in nature or appearance. Example sentencesExamples - His nose was hawkish but it suited him, as did the high cheekbones and cynical quirk of his mouth.
- For his grand home-coming, the characteristic hawkish frown and razor sharp intellect were cast aside to reveal the softer side of the man who brought history to the masses.
- Beatrice's father was a wiry, elderly-looking gentleman with a frizzy gray goatee and a bent, hawkish nose.
- He had a hawkish nose, a feature that marred his otherwise handsome face.
- I really did want to learn the instrument and I was scared to death that the tall, slender woman with the hawkish features wouldn't like me and would call the whole thing off.
- They have hawkish noses, receding chins and luxuriant mullets that fall to their jeans.
- His hawkish features narrowed as they studied me.
- A hawkish nose stretched out from his face and golden-silver hair fell around his shoulders.
- Tall and slim, his neatly-parted silver hair and rimless spectacles sit atop a hawkish nose and ice-blue eyes that are almost a caricature of the Prussian officer.
- Yet above that hawkish nose, his eyes still held that knowing look.
- It's an unglamorous performance and the director makes full use of her hard, hawkish features.
- He leaned forward, his sharp, hawkish nose looking almost absurdly dangerous.
2Advocating an aggressive or warlike policy, especially in foreign affairs. the administration's hawkish stance Example sentencesExamples - When that man was in charge of monetary policy, he was known as the most hawkish Reserve Bank governor in the entire developed world.
- Even the more hawkish leaders have had peace as their priority, often making the boldest concessions.
- NATO ally Turkey has shown no sympathy for the hawkish stance taken by London and Washington.
- Such statements come from hawkish traditionalists peeved that they didn't get the all-out war they wanted.
- The South is more hawkish on foreign policy, according to the data, while the East and West Coast states are the most dovish.
- He became known for his hawkish views against the Soviet Union.
- In a hawkish, emotional speech to the Romanian parliament, Tony Blair said Milosevic was the real target of the war.
- Though hawkish himself, he is regarded as pragmatic in his approach.
- If anything, the Democrats have the more hawkish record on foreign policy.
- The new cabinet has something of a hawkish feel to it.
- He needs support within the army, and many senior generals are hawkish.
- I'm probably the most hawkish person I know on the subject.
- He's the man who helped persuade hawkish editors at influential Newsweek magazine to oppose the Vietnam War.
- A few months ago his views were all the rage in hawkish circles.
- His remarks impute to Jewishness itself a hawkish pro-Israeli bias.
- Some began a move to the right, to an even harder and more hawkish anticommunism.
- Even in hawkish circles, the closer war has come, the less enthusiasm there seems to be for it.
- What I find illuminating - and, frankly, horrifying - is that there are people for whom he is not hawkish enough.
- After the cold war, leaders who had been brought up on a diet of protest and peace marches became the most hawkish political generation yet.
Synonyms aggressive, belligerent, warmongering, warring, bellicose, pugnacious, combative, bloodthirsty, gung-ho, jingoistic, sabre-rattling |