different between hawkist vs hawkish

English

Etymology

From hawk +? -ist.

Noun

hawkist (plural hawkists)

1. A hawk, someone who espouses hawkish politics, especially a hawkish foreign policy.
   • 2004 David Pham, International Politico -

     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).

Adjective

hawkist (comparative more hawkist, superlative most hawkist)

1. hawkish
   • 1987, Gulab Mishra, Indo-Pakistan Relations (p. 384)

     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".

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• washkit

English

Etymology

hawk +? -ish

Adjective

hawkish (comparative more hawkish, superlative most hawkish)

1. Supportive of warlike foreign policy; bellicose; inclined toward military action.

   Synonym: bellicose

   Antonym: dovish
2. Favouring increasing interest rates; inclined towards increasing interest rates.

   Antonym: dovish

Derived terms

• hawkishly
• hawkishness

Related terms

• war hawk

Translations

Further reading

• war hawk on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Wishkah