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hawk +‎ -ish

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hawkish (comparative more hawkish, superlative most hawkish)

  1. Resembling a hawk in appearance or behaviour.
  2. Supportive of warlike foreign policy; bellicose; inclined toward military action.
    Synonym: bellicose
    Antonym: dovish
    The Prime Minister could count on the support of a hawkish majority in Parliament to support the invasion.
    • 2019 September 10, Christian Britschgi, “Ultra-Hawk John Bolton Fired From Trump Administration”, in Reason:
      This was not the first disagreement between the ultra-hawkish Bolton and the occasionally more intervention-skeptic Trump.
    • 2020 July 1, Dan Friedman, “Congressional Democrats Are Tying Themselves Into Knots About Whether to Restrict Aid to Israel”, in Mother Jones:
      But before the letter was finalized, it drew denunciation from the hawkish American Israel Public Affairs Committee.
    • 2022 August 21, Anton Troianovski, “Brazen Attack Near Moscow Rattles Russians”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN:
      The Russian authorities said on Sunday that they had begun a murder investigation into the killing of Daria Dugina, 29, a hawkish political commentator who was the daughter of the philosopher Aleksandr Dugin, long a leading proponent of an imperialist Russia who has been urging the Kremlin to escalate its assault on Ukraine.
  3. Favouring increasing interest rates; inclined towards increasing interest rates.
    Antonym: dovish
    The Federal Reserve's recent statement on the slowing of inflation was interpreted as hawkish by the market.

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Borrowed from English hawkish.

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hawkish (strong nominative masculine singular hawkisher, comparative hawkisher, superlative am hawkishsten)

  1. (stock market, uncommon) hawkish
    • 2022 July 13, Kornelius Purps, “EUR-USD: Parität hält, aber wie lange noch?”, in Wallstreet Online[2]:
      Die Zentralbankvertreter sind von ihrer hawkishen Rhetorik bislang so gut wie keinen Millimeter abgewichen […]
      Central bank representatives have distanced themselves from their hawkish rhetorics by no millimeter […]

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  • hawkish” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon