单词 | hawkish |
释义 | hawkishadj. Somewhat of the nature or appearance of a hawk. Also, inclined to favour hard-line or warlike policies. Cf. hawk n.1 3. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > fierceness > [adjective] grimlyc893 wrothc893 reighOE grima1000 grillc1175 witherc1175 grimfula1240 sturdy1297 wild1297 fiercea1300 man-keenc1300 stoutc1300 cruelc1330 fell?c1335 wicked1375 felonousc1386 felona1400 cursedc1400 runishc1400 keen?c1425 roid?c1425 wolvishc1430 ranishc1450 malicious1485 mankind1519 mannish1530 lionish1549 truculent?c1550 lion-like1556 tigerish?1573 tiger-like1587 truculental1593 Amazonian1595 tigerous1597 feral1604 fierceful1607 efferous1614 lionly1631 tigerly1633 feroce1641 ferocious1646 asperous1650 ferousa1652 blusterous1663 wolfish1674 boarisha1718 savage-fierce1770 Tartar1809 Tartarly1821 wolfy1828 savagerous1832 hawkish1841 tigery1859 attern1868 Hunnish1915 society > authority > rule or government > politics > political philosophy > specific policies or advocacy of > [adjective] > supporting warlike policies hawkish1965 1841 T. Carlyle Crit. & Misc. Ess. (1857) IV. 245 Of temper most accipitral, hawkish, aquiline, not to say vulturish. 1859 H. Kingsley Recoll. Geoffry Hamlyn I. vi. 64 She..was now too fierce and hawkish looking, though you would still call her handsome. 1965 New Statesman 17 Sept. 386/2 The very hawkish chairman of the House of Representatives Armed Services Committee..hankers to bomb Communist China. 1967 Listener 21 Sept. 365/2 It is..inevitable for the newspaper to take a strong—or, as we would now say, hawkish—stand in any international dispute. 1968 Guardian 9 July 8/6 Sir Henry Johnson, chief of BRB, was a true hard-liner, most hawkish of hawks. 1968 Times 4 Nov. 1/1 President Thieu agreed to the bombing halt in advance and..his present performance is directed at hawkish opinion within South Vietnam. 1972 Listener 6 Jan. 8/1 Pakistan's hawkish enemies in New Delhi. Derivatives ˈhawkishness n. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > political philosophy > specific policies or advocacy of > [noun] > warlike policies gun1936 hawkishness1967 1967 Guardian 15 Feb. 6/2 Hawkishness in Bonn could undo the promise of everything that has so far been achieved. 1969 Guardian 13 Feb. 10/1 At yesterday's student meeting [at LSE] there were signs of a new hawkishness among the moderates. 1970 Guardian 4 Aug. 2/6 Withdrawal may be political dynamite, but so is hawkishness. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1841 |
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