warmonger

• war-monger
• war monger

From war +‎ -monger.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈwɔː.mʌŋ.ɡə(ɹ)/

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warmonger (plural warmongers)

1. (derogatory) Someone who advocates war; a militarist.

   Synonyms: bellicist, hawk, jingoist, war hawk

   • 1952 September 22, “Since Stevenson Prefers 'Compromise', Foreign Policy Is Squarely in the Campaign”, in LIFE, volume 33, number 12, Time Inc., →ISSN, page 30:

     Wham! Overnight he [Dwight D. Eisenhower] became a warmonger.

   • 2007, “Clenching the Fists of Dissent”, in Robb Flynn (lyrics), The Blackening, performed by Machine Head, Track 1:

     Do you hear revolution's call? / Time to fight our own denial / Warmongers keep us locked in fear / Invoke the past, a moment of tears / An ugly truth put forth by our youth / Under the threat of patriotic brute / So use your rage / It is a weapon we now must engage / Let trumpets sound our call / Or by their lies we will fall

   • 2017 January 13, Andrey Kaczynski, quoting Dana Rohrabacher, “GOP congressman: ‘Warmongers’ in Congress are wrong to call Putin a ‘war criminal’”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     “He’s not the only one doing this,” Rohrabacher answered. “But it seems to me like what we’ve got are warmongers claiming other people are war criminals. This is the wrong kind of tone. That type of rhetoric is leading us to a point where we will be in conflict and the Russians will think that we are out to get them.”

   • 2025 July 28, Steve Contorno, quoting Paul Dans, “Project 2025 architect Paul Dans to challenge Lindsey Graham for Senate in South Carolina”, in CNN‎^[2]:

     “He’s a 70-year-old childless warmonger and he has no stake in the future of this country,” Dans said. “He is the very reason that MAGA started in the first place, and we only have to look at 2016 when he was a vehement Trump hater. A leopard doesn’t change its spots.”

2. A mercenary soldier.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 550:

     With that, out of his bouget forth he drew
     Great ſtore of treaſure, therewith him to tempt;
     But he on it lookt ſcornefully askew,
     As much diſdeigning to be ſo miſdempt,
     Or a war-monger to be baſely nempt;

• warmongery

• monger (and its other derived terms)
• war profiteer

• merchant of death

warmonger (third-person singular simple present warmongers, present participle warmongering, simple past and past participle warmongered)

1. (derogatory, intransitive) To advocate war.
   • 2002, Robert Colls, Identity of England‎^[3]:

     Harmsworth's Daily Mail had warmongered for over twenty years.