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

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