What's the difference between hawk and jingoist?

Hawk


Definition:

  • (n.) One of numerous species and genera of rapacious birds of the family Falconidae. They differ from the true falcons in lacking the prominent tooth and notch of the bill, and in having shorter and less pointed wings. Many are of large size and grade into the eagles. Some, as the goshawk, were formerly trained like falcons. In a more general sense the word is not infrequently applied, also, to true falcons, as the sparrow hawk, pigeon hawk, duck hawk, and prairie hawk.
  • (v. i.) To catch, or attempt to catch, birds by means of hawks trained for the purpose, and let loose on the prey; to practice falconry.
  • (v. i.) To make an attack while on the wing; to soar and strike like a hawk; -- generally with at; as, to hawk at flies.
  • (v. i.) To clear the throat with an audible sound by forcing an expiratory current of air through the narrow passage between the depressed soft palate and the root of the tongue, thus aiding in the removal of foreign substances.
  • (v. t.) To raise by hawking, as phlegm.
  • (n.) An effort to force up phlegm from the throat, accompanied with noise.
  • (v. t.) To offer for sale by outcry in the street; to carry (merchandise) about from place to place for sale; to peddle; as, to hawk goods or pamphlets.
  • (n.) A small board, with a handle on the under side, to hold mortar.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Britain had been negotiating with the Saudis over the purchase from British Aerospace of dozens of Hawk and Tornado fighter aircraft.
  • (2) McQueen later worked for Gieves & Hawkes and the theatre costumiers Angels , before being employed, aged 20, by Koji Tatsuno , a Japanese designer with links to London.
  • (3) Hawking's latest comments go beyond those laid out in his 2010 book, The Grand Design , in which he asserted that there is no need for a creator to explain the existence of the universe.
  • (4) [Hawkes, G. E., Lian, L. Y., Randall, E. W., Sales, K. D. & Curzon, E. H. (1987) Eur.
  • (5) Hawking was diagnosed with motor neurone disease in 1963 and given two years to live.
  • (6) Verdict Black Hawk Down tiptoes carefully around the facts when it deals with US troops, but its interpretation of history is flimsy, one-sided, and politically questionable.
  • (7) He says that two dozen Delta Force commandos, Black Hawk helicopters, drones and fighter jets were involved in the rescue, adding “but we weren’t there”.
  • (8) One thing he never does is offer to let people stroke the harris hawk.
  • (9) This year, on the first day, I bumped into a fellow market regular who was hawking a DVD title (no longer a badge of shame).
  • (10) Last summer, during the clamour for Britain to intervene militarily in Syria, he was one of the loudest hawks.
  • (11) "We'll be watching them like hawks," said Jim Winkworth, a farmer and pub landlord, as he watched work starting on a bend in the Parrett between Burrowbridge and Moorland, two of the villages worst affected by the winter flooding.
  • (12) A rash of bumper pay deals would support the argument of the hawks, who believe interest rates should be raised to clamp down on inflation.
  • (13) Rap group Migos were stopped from riding their IO Hawks through a shopping centre when they launched their own clothing line, and Khalifa has used a similar device ( the PhunkeeDuck ) while shopping.
  • (14) Cyber is portrayed as something you have to be Stephen Hawking to understand “When I go to cyber seminars the vast majority of people who attend are men,” she says.
  • (15) Early on Sunday morning, Malcolm Turnbull looked out to the Australian electorate and expressed his own profound alienation from the lived experiences of the losers of globalisation – the people who had flocked to Nick Xenophon and Pauline Hanson and to Labor on the basis that the ALP had climbed down partially from the neoliberal pedestal constructed by Bob Hawke and Paul Keating.
  • (16) US hawks, such as senator Lindsey Graham, had suggested a boycott in retaliation for allowing Snowden to remain in the country.
  • (17) There are recorded messages from Stephen Hawking, who hopes to be among the first passengers, and the young human rights campaigner Malala Yousafzai.
  • (18) As Howard Hawks's Monkey Business showed, you could even set a screwball comedy in a vivisection lab.
  • (19) The belief that heaven or an afterlife awaits us is a "fairy story" for people afraid of death, Stephen Hawking has said.
  • (20) US farmers are in the middle of the worst drought they've faced in half a century , and pressure is growing from Democrats, farm lobbies, and deficit hawks for Congress to enact the new law.

Jingoist


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) What is striking about the history wars of recent months, however, is that the jingoists have not in the end managed to impose their views on the coalition government.
  • (2) Had they bothered to inquire of a veteran from the ranks, they might have heard how exasperating it is to see the dainty long-range patriots of Labour thrashing it out with the staunch gutter jingoists of the Conservative party – and barely a non-commissioned vet among them.
  • (3) With an out-of-session Congress deadlocked over immigration reform and right-wing lawmakers hell-bent on “sealing the border”, the White House faces intense pressure to do something – anything – about immigration, after years of burying a civil rights crisis in a mire of political tone-deafness and jingoistic bombast.
  • (4) He is at least as tribal, jingoistic, and provincial as those he condemns for those human failings, as he constantly hails the nobility of his side while demeaning those Others.
  • (5) Responding to May’s comments, the Liberal Democrat leader, Tim Farron, called the slogan “jingoistic claptrap” and said it showed no further policy development.
  • (6) From the crassly jingoistic to the harmlessly patriotic, let us know your own favourites below.
  • (7) Fair enough, but have you also got anything to say to us about raging jingoist Guy Mowbray?
  • (8) Referee: Carlos Eugenio Simon (Brazil) In case you were wondering , Carlsberg don't have a monopoly on naff, jingoistic World Cup adverts.
  • (9) With Labour's normally un-jingoistic leader, Michael Foot, bellowing for "action not words", she pleaded for support for troops which, as yet, were still on British soil.
  • (10) There have been plenty of controversies in its colourful past, such as its notoriously insensitive story about the Hillsborough football tragedy in 1989, its jingoistic coverage of the Falklands war and the libelling of Elton John that resulted in a £1m settlement.
  • (11) And sometimes, as with the US Navy-backed Act Of Valour , currently burning up the jingoist and videogamer demographics at the US box office, the Pentagon literally gets final cut.
  • (12) With the six novels he wrote in the years leading up to the second world war - five of which have just been reissued by Penguin Modern Classics - Eric Ambler revitalised the British thriller, rescuing the genre from the jingoistic clutches of third-rate imitators of John Buchan, and recasting it in a more realist, nuanced and leftishly intelligent - not to mention exciting - mould.
  • (13) But still, it's both gratifying and a bit surprising to see that this CIA-shaped jingoistic celebration of America's proudest moment of the last decade - finding bin Laden, pumping his skull full of bullets, and then dumping his corpse into the ocean - ended up with the stigma it deserves.
  • (14) UK will have under 18 months to reach deal, says EU Brexit broker Read more The Liberal Democrat leader, Tim Farron, called the slogan “jingoistic claptrap” and said it showed no further policy development.
  • (15) Let's hope he isn't asked to do his turn on the day of the Final, the jingoistic goon.
  • (16) Now – with a newly expansionist, jingoistic Russia led by President Vladimir Putin set on reasserting itself internationally, with eastern Europe and the Baltic states wondering fearfully what may follow its armed intervention in eastern Ukraine, and with close military encounters between Russia and the west running at cold war levels – Finland is once again on red alert.
  • (17) The Danes are aggressively jingoistic, waving their red-and-white dannebrog at the slightest provocation.
  • (18) He had not gone along with the jingoistic adulation of Bruno in his moment of triumph, and was criticised in some quarters for giving what was seen as only grudging praise.
  • (19) Sadly, the waters would quickly become muddied as other countries started playing too, although it is not pushing a particularly jingoistic agenda to suggest that, until the end of the 19th century, the winner of this grand old fixture could feasibly claim to be the world champions.
  • (20) European or American-style imperialism is not a feasible option for them yet; they deploy instead, more riskily, jingoistic nationalism and cross-border militarism as a valve for domestic tensions.

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