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单词 hawkish
释义 hawkish, a.|ˈhɔːkɪʃ|
[f. hawk n.1 + -ish.]
Somewhat of the nature or appearance of a hawk. Also, inclined to favour hard-line or warlike policies. Cf. hawk n.1 3. Hence ˈhawkishness.
1841Carlyle Misc. (1857) IV. 245 Of temper most accipitral, hawkish, aquiline, not to say vulturish.1859H. Kingsley G. Hamlyn I. vi. 64 She..was now too fierce and hawkish looking, though you would still call her handsome.1965New Statesman 17 Sept. 386/2 The very hawkish chairman of the House of Representatives Armed Services Committee..hankers to bomb Communist China.1967Guardian 15 Feb. 6/2 Hawkishness in Bonn could undo the promise of everything that has so far been achieved.1967Listener 21 Sept. 365/2 It is..inevitable for the newspaper to take a strong—or, as we would now say, hawkish—stand in any international dispute.1968Guardian 9 July 8/6 Sir Henry Johnson, chief of BRB, was a true hard-liner, most hawkish of hawks.1968Times 4 Nov. 1/1 President Thieu agreed to the bombing halt in advance and..his present performance is directed at hawkish opinion within South Vietnam.1969Guardian 13 Feb. 10/1 At yesterday's student meeting [at LSE] there were signs of a new hawkishness among the moderates.1970Ibid. 4 Aug. 2/6 Withdrawal may be political dynamite, but so is hawkishness.1972Listener 6 Jan. 8/1 Pakistan's hawkish enemies in New Delhi.
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