What's the difference between imperialist and imperialistic?
Imperialist
Definition:
(n.) One who serves an emperor; one who favors imperialism.
Example Sentences:
(1) There has been a tendency to portray Russians as aggressively imperialistic at heart, a homogeneous bloc thirsty for military adventures.
(2) Then there were American imperialists, Turkish nostalgics for the Ottoman days and Iranians ambitious for Islamic terrorism in the Balkans.
(3) The French are no longer colonisers, or imperialists, or even plundering racists.
(4) But now people are thinking about the public school elites, aristocracy, City of London investment bankers, corporate lobbyists, and the imperialist warmongers, apologists and conspirators in the media, not as instruments of good government and a healthy democracy, but as dangerous impediments to it.
(5) North Korea's "nuclear armed forces" it added, "represent the nation's life, which can never be abandoned as long as the imperialists and nuclear threats exist on earth".
(6) The trouble with liberal interventionism is that it lacks the courage of its neo-imperialist conviction.
(7) It cannot be long before other UK universities are called on to review their own imperialist connections too, for this is a widespread phenomenon, not confined to Oxford.
(8) Promoters of the bill in Uganda, which gained independence from Britain in 1962, appealed to populist notions of culture that frame homosexuality as an "un-African", alien behaviour foisted on the continent by western imperialists.
(9) Until the early 2000s, the South had been presented to North Koreans in their official media as a destitute, near-starving colony of US imperialists.
(10) In spite of his obvious lack of divinity, and the fact that he's more interested in women and anti-imperialist politics than religion, Brian (Graham Chapman) is plagued by followers convinced that he's the saviour.
(11) Earlier in the summer, the Jimmy Reid Foundation asked Glasgow's council to erect a plaque that would "write back into history" the city's revolutionary socialists and pacifists whose opposition to what they saw as a capitalist and imperialist conflict earned them jail sentences, ill-health and opprobrium.
(12) Working to find a way to do us out of our rights feels like the ugly and old-fashioned face of imperialist, corporate greed.
(13) Without naming and shaming, during the USA's game against Portugal, I saw one leftwing tweeter ask with plaintive, stony-faced sincerity "how can anyone be supporting the imperialists?"
(14) It is surely one of the intellectual catastrophes of history that an imperialist war confected by a small group of unelected US officials was waged against a devastated third world dictatorship on thoroughly ideological grounds having to do with world dominance, security control and scarce resources, but disguised for its true intent, hastened and reasoned for by orientalists who betrayed their calling as scholars.
(15) Rhodes’s imperialist and racist attitude to Africa causes much controversy and resentment today”, said the university, but the educational institution “probably not have come into existence in 1918” without his land donation.
(16) Such incidents illustrate how many in the ANC still see Mugabe as a brother in Africa's liberation struggle while dismissing the MDC as a Johnny-come-lately conjured up by western imperialists.
(17) The principles of action for chemical warfare agents incorporate into the strategy of the imperialistic army commands in a possible war, which is based on the cooperation of mass extermination and conventional arms.
(18) "They say 'you are a servant of the imperialist English government.
(19) Considering how much criticism there has been of Nato's intervention in Libya, Saudi Arabia's neo-imperialist adventure in Bahrain has attracted remarkably little attention – and it didn't even have the cover of the UN security council resolution.
(20) The arguments advanced by birth control advocates for population limitation policies are identified and characterized as a barrier to solving fundamental economic and social problems in both developing and advanced countries, and are characterized as a component of imperialist foreign policy and investment interests.