Crossword clues for hawkish
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"hawk-like," by 1703, from hawk (n.) + -ish. Sense of "militaristic" is from 1965, from hawk in the transferred sense.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Supportive of warlike foreign policy; bellicose; inclined toward military action. 2 Favouring increasing interest rates; inclined towards increasing interest rates.
Usage examples of "hawkish".
I spotted him every day on the streets of the village: an asthenic olive-skinned man, with a scraggly fringe of brown beard and a hawkish Semitic face.
The man who must be Daniel Brount possessed a hawkish countenance with thin eyebrows, a hooked nose, and a pointed chin.
Adopting my contingency plan, I slipped through the group and tucked my hand under the arm of a man with the white hair of a televangelist, the deceptively trustworthy eyes of same, and a hawkish red nose-and therefore the man most likely to be the revered judge.
Does he care to say what is unpersuasive about the evidence adduced by so many historians and participants, from the hawkish Bundy and Haldeman to the more skeptical Clark Clifford?
General Moreno was Commander in Chief Fleet, a position once held by the hawkish Argentinian patriot Admiral Jorge Anaya, the man who had taken his nation to war in the Falkland Islands twenty-eight years ago.
He saw a tall man, whose countenance was masklike, hawkish in its mold.
Age had, whitened the nictitating membrane and it was semi-retracted, giving her a hooded, hawkish aspect.
Simultaneously, the popular response to the terrorist attacks has made the strategies inherent in the more hawkish positions feasible in a way that they never were before, because the American people were never willing to make the sacrifices necessary to devote serious resources and political capital to the toppling of Saddam.
Because both wings of the hawkish faction favored pressing ahead with regime change while maintaining a confrontational approach on containment, for most of the Bush, Sr.
Rising tensions between the Burnouts and the City dwellers have spurred development of weapons, formation of a militia, and pressure for a pre-emptive strike against the Burnouts from the more hawkish factions of the Mandala City government.
Ma’am, it’s my opinion that the hardliners on the council are pushing for a more hawkish stance.
The colonel's darkly tanned, hawkish face swam before her eyes, forming amid the heat waves, and she stumbled on the edge of the tarmac before quickly regaining her balance.
He frowned, the blue light casting otherworldly shadows on his hawkish features, and moused over to his bookmarks.