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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
warmonger
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Some saw him as a great statesman, but others saw him as a ruthless warmonger.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Despite the beliefs of foreigners, he had not really been a warmonger.
▪ James Madison, who was burdened with the War of 1812, was branded as both a warmonger and a coward.
▪ We're not warmongers, but liberationists.
▪ You know ... as I do ... that the Prussians have always been the warmongers.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Warmonger

Warmonger \War"mon`ger\, n. One who makes ar a trade or business; a mercenary. [R.]
--Spenser.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
warmonger

also war-monger, 1580s, from war (n.) + monger (n.). First attested in Spenser's "Faerie Queene," and perhaps coined by him.

Wiktionary
warmonger

n. (context pejorative English) a bellicist, someone who advocates war; a militarist

WordNet
warmonger

n. a person who advocates war or warlike policies [syn: militarist]

Wikipedia
Warmonger (novel)

Warmonger is a BBC Books original novel written by Terrance Dicks and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It features the Fifth Doctor and Peri.

It is a prequel to the television serial The Brain of Morbius from Morbius and Solon and the Sisterhood of the Flame's perspective, although it is technically also a sequel as the Fifth Doctor is the main character while The Brain of Morbius featured the Fourth as the central protagonist. Cardinal Borusa also appears.

Warmonger

A warmonger is someone who Instigates war.

Warmonger may also refer to:

  • Warmonger (novel), a 2002 novel based on the Doctor Who television series
  • Warmonger: Operation Downtown Destruction, a 2007 first-person shooter computer game developed by NetDevil
  • Warmonger, a villain from the cartoon series Mighty Max
  • General Warmonger, a character from the 2009 animated film Monsters vs. Aliens

Usage examples of "warmonger".

He is Preece the Warmonger, a known mercenary in the employ of King Cronel.

The Warmonger crept closer, waited until the flanking watchmen passed him, then darted into the shadows.

Many of the other warriors sparred with him regularly and flourished under his instruction, but none had bested the erstwhile Warmonger yet.

I did not admit any was referred to particularly as Warmonger, but I suspect she knows better.

He was just as strong, just as talented as ever with a sword or shield, outwardly no different than the Warmonger they all knew.

I refused to participate in any ceremony honoring a warmonger like Rusk, so I told King I would look around on the edge of the campus for a bar, and then meet them for lunch at the cafeteria for the Law Day luncheon.

Not to let our country be drawn into conflict by warmongers, whose custom it is to let others pull their chestnuts out of the fire.

The British Government, driven on by those warmongers whom we knew in the last war, have resolved to let fall their mask and to proclaim war on a threadbare pretext .

British warmongers continually to the place from which they tried to start the war: to Soviet Russia.

Liberals mock Americans who love their country, calling them cowboys, warmongers, religious zealots, and jingoists.

Malenkov, interviewed by telegram, had said that although the intensified program of aircraft construction in the West was no more than a part of a bourgeois-fascist plan by warmongers that could deceive no one, yet so great was the opposition of the Russian people to any thought of war that the production of aircraft within the Soviet Union for the Defense of Peace had been tripled.

The Soviet Government had on several former occasions pointed out that the Arctic activities of the hirelings of capitalist warmongers might well be a menace to Peace.

The groups Cavanaugh had meant were, presumably, being investigated through Washington: Russian hard-liners, Iranian warmongers, German neo-Nazis, South African white supremacists resenting the end of apartheid, South Americans with a grudge against the United States.

Ever since the first cannonballs fell on Fort Sumter in 1861, Southern politics has been dominated by thieves, bigots, warmongers and buffoons.

While the Republicans assaulted him as a warmonger, he was berated by the High Federalists as fainthearted in the face of the French.