Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One who advocates or attempts to stir up war.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who fights for hire; a mercenary soldier, or bravo.
Wiktionary
- n. pejorative a bellicist, someone who advocates war; a militarist
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. rare One who makes ar a trade or business; a mercenary.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a person who advocates war or warlike policies
Etymologies
- war + -monger. A warmonger is literally a seller of war, from monger used as a transitive verb, meaning a peddler. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“As a national defense conservative, I've had so little opportunity to use the word "warmonger"...it's been the almost exclusive property of the political left in recent years.”
“Well at least the ol 'warmonger is going to get 3 votes ... his, Cindy's and Megan's.”
“It seems that here of late every time Mcbush opens his mouth he shows us all just how dumb he really is, The warmonger is not fit to be pres., hes a killer, not a hero. carolflowery”
“They want and DESERVE respect and this warmonger is not going to give it to them.”
“From this it follows that every warmonger is the glorious reincarnation of the brave and resolute Winston Churchill.”
“What about these idea, as John McCain is talking about, about holding a respectful campaign and where does the word warmonger fit into that?”
“Then again, it’s not as if Israel has no influence with the White House – Rahm Emanuel, that Zionist warmonger, is chief of staff. jack”
“No one wants to be called a warmonger, and certainly no one ever cops to the charge.”
The Huffington Post: Barry Eisler: The Definition of Insanity
“David Lindsay, the reason Melanie isnt happy is because a warmonger is the enemy of peace, and the drums of war beat loud and often from behind Ms Phillips computer in the safety of her Fleet Street office.”
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
“McCain has pretty well been defined as a warmonger who has similar views as Bush and other Republicans, his protestations and the plaintive wails of the media to the contrary.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘warmonger’.
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Bad Options
words for those who commit particular crimes: i.e., bank robber, arsonist, etc.
liar, cheat, traitor, arsonist, felon, braggard, thief, profiteer, impostor, phony, fraud, culprit and 213 more...
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-monger
dealer or trader; promoter of some activity or feeling
warmonger, fishmonger, barbermonger, ironmonger, rumormonger, fellmonger, costermonger, fancymonger, hatemonger, fearmonger, whoremonger, scaremonger and 1 more...
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Military Matters
words of mass (or minor) destruction
caltrop, stylet, chassepot, baldric, rewet, blunderbuss, musket, flintlock, howitzer, ordnance, casque, dragoon and 148 more...
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Words Covered in Faery Dust (W)
words that evoke magic, mystery, mayhem, magnificence or anything else that glimmers in the grass
wail, waistcoat, wales, wallflower, wand, wandering, wanderlust, waning, ward, wardrobe, warp, wassail and 97 more...
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sionnach's Words
contumely, fomite, holmgang, poltroon, eleemosynary, obsidian, nugatory, grindcore, felch, recrudescent, pyx, parenteral and 3271 more...
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geekwad's Words
mysterium, elif, reckon, shadowy, ostensibly, unique, foodie, surreptitiously, asynchronous, insane, berserk, space pirate and 235 more...
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Oofy
States of being
seeress, honey bucket, donkeyman, poopyhead, halfwit, vixenish, galoot, hoity toity, shitkicker, miserabilist, wanker, clueless and 261 more...
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die6die's Words
somnambulist, obfuscate, hirsute, kleptobibliomania, serendipitous, dissuade, duplicitous, zounds, lo, unleash, fortnight, thaumaturgy and 278 more...
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Words Against Bush (and/or his admini...
These are words that have been used, might have been used, or could be used in association with the current president and/or his administration. They are only listed as a device to remind the read...
cowboy, naive, ignorant, vengeful, vindictive, grudge, petulant, angry, bully, immature, inexperienced, afraid and 85 more...
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Monger monger
wordmonger, cheesemonger, hatemonger, warmonger, whoremonger, scaremonger, peacemonger, lovemonger, phrasemonger, bookmonger, peltmonger, wondermonger and 12 more...
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lunatic fringe
*interesting* -nge/-nge- words
lozenge, syringe, twinge, cringe, fringe, expunge, grunge, revenge, avenge, hinge, melange, impinge and 48 more...
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mongery
Stephen Colbert asks "why is it that the only things you can monger are fear and fish?"
http://twitter.com/#!/StephenAt...fishmonger, fearmonger, costermonger, cheesemonger, carpetmonger, bookmonger, ballad monger, fancymonger, fashion-monger, fellmonger, fleshmonger, hatemonger and 9 more...
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pretty meanings
weltschmertz, ichor, niveous, ersatz, pulicose, mystacal, zeitgeist, sturm und drang, bildungsroman, gravitas, segue, pilcrow and 45 more...
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Mongers
fishmonger, cheesemonger, warmonger, fearmonger, hatemonger, ironmonger
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