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  • noun The characteristic of being hawkish.

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  • noun any political orientation favoring aggressive policies

Etymologies

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hawkish +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • Her hawkishness is just a ploy to ensure Bush's re-election so she can run against Bill Frist (Frist?

    December 2003 2003

  • With a top political adviser, Bill, who successfully shunned the neo-cons, I believe that HRC's so-called hawkishness is a deliberate compensation for the fact that she might not get credibility as a POTUS because she is a woman.

    Poll: Obama, Romney Ahead In Iowa 2009

  • But I think part of HRC's so-called hawkishness is to counter the perception that a woman would be weak to be POTUS.

    Poll: Obama, Romney Ahead In Iowa 2009

  • But I think part of HRC's so-called hawkishness is to counter the perception that a woman would be too weak to be POTUS.

    Hillary Joining Webb For Measure Opposing War With Iran 2009

  • With a top political adviser, Bill, who successfully shunned the neo-cons, I believe that HRC's so-called hawkishness is a deliberate compensation for the fact that she might not get credibility as a POTUS because she is a woman.

    Hillary Joining Webb For Measure Opposing War With Iran 2009

  • Yes, McCain will lose because of his "hawkishness" stance on Iraq.

    Paul: Not ready to endorse McCain, likes Obama's foreign policy 2008

  • The "hawkishness" about her that many here have commented about would seems to me to be an attempt to counter a perception that a female would not have the cojones big enough to deal with the likes of Mahmoud in Tehran, Kim in Pyongyang or Hugo in Caracas.

    Poll: Obama, Romney Ahead In Iowa 2009

  • The "hawkishness" about her that many here have commented about would seems to me to be an attempt to counter the (wrong) perception that a female would not have the cojones big enough to deal with the likes of Mahmoud in Tehran, Kim in Pyongyang or Hugo in Caracas.

    Hillary Joining Webb For Measure Opposing War With Iran 2009

  • Her increasing 'hawkishness' extends beyond the Iraq conflict and into some constitutional rights issues.

    Jeanine Molloff: Missouri: The Triangulation Of Senator Claire McCaskill 2008

  • You’ve got in here the press’ natural cynicism and the fact that it’s better, career-wise, to be dubious of big pronouncements like this — when they run * against* hawkishness, that is — than it is to accept them.

    I Get Around | ATTACKERMAN 2009

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