pacifistic
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- antipacifistic adjective
- nonpacifistic adjective
- pacifistically adverb
- semipacifistic adjective
- unpacifistic adjective
Etymology
Origin of pacifistic
Example Sentences
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Another refreshing commentary on pacifistic views comes from a Quaker, Scott Simon, a National Public Radio talk show host and, at least earlier in life, a pacifist.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026
His father was the choir director of the First Congregational Church in Norwich, elevating the prominence of the pacifistic family.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 5, 2018
Yet Orwell belonged for a time to the pacifistic Independent Labour Party, deplored the sadism of communists in Spain and felt uneasy with gratuitous violence in media.
From Washington Post • Feb. 24, 2017
To make a picture with pacifistic elements was absolutely impossible.
From The Guardian • Jan. 26, 2017
How could the humanistic emotions, such as pity, justice, sympathy, exist save as pacifistic quietings of the desire to slay, to hurt, to torment.
From Lysistrata by Aristophanes
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