How to Use warmonger in a Sentence

warmonger

noun
  • This episode serves, mostly, as a reminder of the costs of war—and who pays the price for the whims of the warmongers.
    Roxane Gay, WIRED, 11 June 2016
  • Prince Chauncley is a bit more song-and-dance than warmonger.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 28 Jan. 2020
  • Gone was any hint of the warmonger his critics have portrayed him as.
    Gardiner Harris and Eileen Sullivan, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2018
  • Thirst for war – maximum pressure – should go with the warmonger-in-chief.
    Fox News, 11 Sep. 2019
  • John Bolton is a terrifying warmonger who loves to blow things up.
    Molly Jong-Fast, Vogue, 11 July 2020
  • The title character is the son of the over-achieving ruler and warmonger Charlemagne in 8th century Europe.
    Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 14 July 2022
  • Those who opposed the agreement were smeared as warmongers who shared a common cause with the Iranian-regime hardliners.
    Matthew Rj Brodsky, National Review, 26 Oct. 2017
  • Your opponent will be deemed a warmonger, and collapse into chaos.
    Dennard Dayle, The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2022
  • The base of the party demands populist messages that speak to them and not Chamber of Commerce messages, not neocon messages, not warmonger messages.
    Bridget Bowman, NBC News, 6 Dec. 2022
  • Petro, meanwhile, has described himself as a left-wing moderate and Duque as a far-right warmonger who would reignite national tensions.
    Anthony Faiola, chicagotribune.com, 17 June 2018
  • Steppenwolf is a real DC Comics villain, an immortal warmonger who Superman will likely return in the nick of time to stop.
    Joshua Rivera, GQ, 26 Oct. 2017
  • Babis presented himself as a peacemaker and labeled Pavel a warmonger due to his military past.
    Karel Janicek, ajc, 28 Jan. 2023
  • After decades of being manipulated and held captive, some hosts may feel the freedom to become vengeance-seeking warmongers; others may seek a path of more personal fulfillment.
    Bryan Bishop, The Verge, 20 Apr. 2018
  • This might seem like a doleful itinerary from our violent age: not so much waypoints on a walk meant to connect humanity as a plunge into the Phlegethon, the river of burning blood in which murderers, warmongers, and tyrants boil in Dante’s Inferno.
    Paul Salopek, National Geographic, 10 Jan. 2020
  • The government accuses Western media of falsely portraying Abiy as a warmonger.
    Simon Marks and Declan Walsh New York Times, Star Tribune, 23 Jan. 2021
  • No one bothered him about being an unrepentant warmonger who, as Anthony Bourdain has famously noted, belongs in prison.
    Drew Magary, GQ, 22 Feb. 2018
  • Nuclear fear offered another familiar figure for 20th-century novelists and screenwriters to play with: the warmonger whose feckless ego dooms us all.
    Rebecca Onion, Slate Magazine, 20 July 2017
  • Bush’s two administrations made America a torturer and a warmonger.
    Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2022
  • The name ‘Raiders’ has negative connotations — synonyms include pillager, warmonger and aggressor.
    New York Times, 30 June 2021
  • The North Korea leader’s seemingly overnight transformation from warmonger to peacemaker has diplomats and analysts pondering one central question: Why?
    Jim Michaels, USA TODAY, 1 May 2018
  • Bush’s remark, hinting at the brutality to come, shocked staid Europeans, and images depicting Bush as a warmonger soon began appearing regularly on European media.
    Chris Mondics, Philly.com, 9 Aug. 2017
  • After losing friends who criticized him as a warmonger, Luckey is suddenly feeling vindicated.
    Zach Everson, Forbes, 17 June 2022
  • Bismarck was a cacophony of contradictions: an autocrat who fostered democracy, a fierce Prussian who promoted German nationalism, an ultraconservative who courted socialists, a warmonger who mastered diplomacy.
    Washington Post, 7 Jan. 2022

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