warmonger

[ wawr-mong-ger, -muhng- ]

noun

1. a person who advocates, endorses, or tries to precipitate war.

warmonger

/ ˈwɔːˌmʌŋɡə /

noun

1. a person who fosters warlike ideas or advocates war

Derived Forms

• ˈwarˌmongering, noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of warmonger¹

First recorded in 1580–90; war ¹ + monger

Example Sentences

In 2022 she left the Democrat Party and initially registered as an independent - accusing her former party of being an “elitist cabal of warmongers” driven by "cowardly wokeness".

From BBC

“I’m no warmonger. But the fact is, if we decide a strike against Iraq is necessary, it is madness not to carry the mission to its conclusion,” he wrote.

From Salon

In the run-up to European Parliament elections last week, far-right political parties denounced expenditures for the Ukraine war as fruitless, counterproductive and warmongering — and found a measure of electoral success with that refrain.

From Los Angeles Times

The Hungarian PM says EU leaders and the US are warmongers over Ukraine – and 9 June is a simple vote between peace and war.

From BBC

He’d then move to fire “rogue bureaucrats,” including those who ”weaponized our justice system,” and the “warmongers and America-Last globalists in the Deep State, the Pentagon, the State Department, and the national security industrial complex.”

From Seattle Times