pacifistic
Americanadjective
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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
Leo Szilard, an escaped Hungarian physicist, took a draft of a letter to Einstein, who, although pacifistic, signed the final version.
From Textbooks ● Aug. 12, 2015
Still, it’s odd for the commander in chief to express an essentially pacifistic sentiment at the Pentagon.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2015
The pacifistic demand or a Federal World State in order to make the abolition of war a possibility 31 IV.
From The League of Nations and its Problems Three Lectures by Oppenheim, L. (Lassa)
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