warmonger
pronunciation
How to pronounce warmonger in British English:
UK [ˈwɔ:mʌŋgə(r)]
How to pronounce warmonger in American English:
US [ˈwɔrmʌŋgə(r)]
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- Noun:
- a person who advocates war or warlike policies
Word Origin
- warmonger (n.)
- also war-monger, 1580s, from war (n.) + monger (n.). First attested in Spenser's "Faerie Queene," and perhaps coined by him.
Example
- 1. On the face of it , he sounds like a warmonger .
- 2. Don 't be deceived by the warmonger !
- 3. Mr koizumi 's yasukuni visits caused protests across china . Yet he is no warmonger .
- 4. He was no warmonger but he did believe in nuclear weapons .
- 5. To be fair , though , I understand from the times that whenever I mention in my column that wwii ended the great depression , the paper gets a lot of mail accusing me of being a warmonger .