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hawkish
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English
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /ˈhɔːkɪʃ/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /ˈhɑːkɪʃ/
- Rhymes: -ɔːkɪʃ
Adjective
hawkish (comparative more hawkish, superlative most hawkish)
- Resembling a hawk in appearance or behaviour.
- Supportive of warlike foreign policy; bellicose; inclined toward military action.
- Synonym: bellicose
- Antonym: dovish
- The Prime Minister could count on the support of a hawkish majority in Parliament to support the invasion.
- 2019 September 10, Christian Britschgi, “Ultra-Hawk John Bolton Fired From Trump Administration”, in Reason:
- This was not the first disagreement between the ultra-hawkish Bolton and the occasionally more intervention-skeptic Trump.
- 2020 July 1, Dan Friedman, “Congressional Democrats Are Tying Themselves Into Knots About Whether to Restrict Aid to Israel”, in Mother Jones:
- But before the letter was finalized, it drew denunciation from the hawkish American Israel Public Affairs Committee.
- 2022 August 21, Anton Troianovski, “Brazen Attack Near Moscow Rattles Russians”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
- The Russian authorities said on Sunday that they had begun a murder investigation into the killing of Daria Dugina, 29, a hawkish political commentator who was the daughter of the philosopher Aleksandr Dugin, long a leading proponent of an imperialist Russia who has been urging the Kremlin to escalate its assault on Ukraine.
- Favouring increasing interest rates; inclined towards increasing interest rates.
- Antonym: dovish
- The Federal Reserve's recent statement on the slowing of inflation was interpreted as hawkish by the market.
Derived terms
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Translations
resembling a hawk
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supportive of warlike foreign policy
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favoring increasing interest rates
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German
Etymology
Adjective
hawkish (strong nominative masculine singular hawkisher, comparative hawkisher, superlative am hawkishsten)
- (stock market, uncommon) hawkish
- 2022 July 13, Kornelius Purps, “EUR-USD: Parität hält, aber wie lange noch?”, in Wallstreet Online:
- Die Zentralbankvertreter sind von ihrer hawkishen Rhetorik bislang so gut wie keinen Millimeter abgewichen […]
- Central bank representatives have distanced themselves from their hawkish rhetorics by no millimeter […]
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Further reading
- “hawkish” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
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