warmonger
Americannoun
noun
Other Word Forms
- warmongering noun
Etymology
Origin of warmonger
Example Sentences
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LONDON—When Spotify founder Daniel Ek in 2021 announced he was investing more than $100 million in European defense-tech startup Helsing, musicians and streamers across the continent slammed the Swedish entrepreneur as a warmonger.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 24, 2025
After the Berlin Wall came down, many saw Reagan as a visionary, not as a warmonger.
From Washington Post • Mar. 27, 2022
Playing down his image as a warmonger, sources claim that in his new role he sees himself as an honest broker between agencies.
From Economist • Mar. 28, 2018
Nuclear fear offered another familiar figure for 20th-century novelists and screenwriters to play with: the warmonger whose feckless ego dooms us all.
From Slate • Jul. 20, 2017
He was describing the boardroom confrontation with the man who called him a warmonger.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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