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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
peace-loving
adjective
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
peace-loving/fun-loving/home-loving etc
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
peace-loving nations
▪ As a nation, they are gentle and peace-loving.
▪ The Australian Aboriginals are a peace-loving race who live simply off the land.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As the Christmas story demonstrates, more peace-loving potentates also appreciate the camel's skills.
▪ That bronze corset can make even the most peace-loving warrior a little cranky.
▪ The unworldly, peace-loving doctor, oblivious of both material comfort and public opinion, is in some respects a self-portrait.
▪ You're just a bunch of sweet old peace-loving hippies, aren't you?
WordNet
peace-loving

adj. inclined or disposed to peace; "they met in a peaceable spirit"; "peace-loving citizens" [syn: peaceable]

Usage examples of "peace-loving".

I believe the men who reach high places in politics are, as a rule, the best and brainiest men in the land, and upon their shoulders rest the safety and well-being of the peace-loving, God-fearing millions.

He believed the Nkonde, a gentle, peace-loving people, were descendents of the Hamites, the lost tribe of Israel.

Now a virulent new hantavirus has emerged, which has begun to lay waste to the peace-loving tribe.

Conversely, no matter what a peace-loving person may have done, as a nonrevolutionary he is guilty.

According to what the Stinkers felt, it was a gentle, peace-loving and highly advanced life-form.

A paradoxical man, the peace-loving Lundren, who played such a large part in the colonisation of New Athens in 197, later entered the harsh world of politics, admittedly less vicious on New Athens than anywhere else in the charted universe.

I'm a peace-loving who abhors violence but when you're as big as I am no one ever offers it to you.

As she grew up, she watched TV shows about cults and believed that the people in cults were brainwashed, however, when she visited me in Paris, she thought that the Family was just like a group of peace-loving hippies.

Even while the Minds concerned had been contending that a single abrupt and crushing blow would benefit all concerned - including the Affront, not just ultimately, but soon - the Culture's warships were being stood down, deactivated, componented, stored and demilitarised by the tens of thousands, while its trillions of citizens were congratulating themselves on a job well done and returning with the relish of the truly peace-loving to the uninhibited enjoyment of all the recreational wonders the resolutely hedonism-focused society of the Culture had to offer.

He said, “We have learned that you scaly devils are seriously considering cease-fires without time limits for discussion of your withdrawal from the territory of the peace-loving Soviet Union and other states.

Much more probably, this peace-loving warlord of Cousin Arthur's would make di Bolgia a fast friend, join the two condottas into one, and then I'd have a real threat, a mobile threat, ready to leap out of Munster at my very throat at any time.

Luckily a severe storm prevented him from setting said, but he plundered and destroyed some rich temples on the western coast, and enriched himself with the spoil This was a mere wanton attack on property belonging to feudatories of the Vijayanagar empire, for there has never been any pretence that the peace-loving Brahmans attached to these temples had in any way offended or interfered with the Portuguese.

I knew all along the Aga Kagans were a reasonable, peace-loving people.