hawkist

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hawkist

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From hawk + -ist.

noun hawkists

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).

adjective more hawkist · most hawkist

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".

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@misc{hawkist_2026,
  title = {hawkist},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/hawkist},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}