warmonger

plural warmongers · alternative war-monger · alternative war monger

1. derogatorySomeone who advocates war to an enthusiastic or ardent degree.

   Wham! Overnight he [Dwight D. Eisenhower] became a warmonger.

   1952 September 22, “Since Stevenson Prefers 'Compromise', Foreign Policy Is Squarely in the Campaign”, in LIFE, volume 33, number 12, Time Inc., →ISSN, page 30

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   Do you hear revolution's call? / Time to fight our own denial / Warmongers keep us locked in fear / Invoke the past, a moment of tears / An ugly truth put forth by our youth / Under the threat of patriotic brute / So use your rage / It is a weapon we now must engage / Let trumpets sound our call / Or by their lies we will fall

   2007, “Clenching the Fists of Dissent”, in Robb Flynn (lyrics), The Blackening, performed by Machine Head, Track 1

   “He’s not the only one doing this,” Rohrabacher answered. “But it seems to me like what we’ve got are warmongers claiming other people are war criminals. This is the wrong kind of tone. That type of rhetoric is leading us to a point where we will be in conflict and the Russians will think that we are out to get them.”

   2017 January 13, Andrey Kaczynski, quoting Dana Rohrabacher, “GOP congressman: ‘Warmongers’ in Congress are wrong to call Putin a ‘war criminal’”, in CNN

   “He’s a 70-year-old childless warmonger and he has no stake in the future of this country,” Dans said. “He is the very reason that MAGA started in the first place, and we only have to look at 2016 when he was a vehement Trump hater. A leopard doesn’t change its spots.”

   2025 July 28, Steve Contorno, quoting Paul Dans, “Project 2025 architect Paul Dans to challenge Lindsey Graham for Senate in South Carolina”, in CNN

   Synonyms: bellicist, hawk, jingoist, militarist, war hawk

2. A mercenary soldier.

   With that, out of his bouget forth he drew Great ſtore of treaſure, therewith him to tempt; But he on it lookt ſcornefully askew, As much diſdeigning to be ſo miſdempt, Or a war-monger to be baſely nempt;

   1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 550

present singular third person warmongers · participle present warmongering · participle past warmongered · past warmongered · alternative war-monger · alternative war monger

1. derogatoryintransitiveTo advocate war.

   Harmsworth's Daily Mail had warmongered for over twenty years.

   2002, Robert Colls, Identity of England