What's the difference between militarist and warmonger?

Militarist


Definition:

  • (n.) A military man.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The idea came to Kim, he said, when he heard that Seoul's repressive, militaristic Park regime had closed down Shin Films.
  • (2) He has introduced a cold, militaristic atmosphere into his bereaved home.
  • (3) But as civilisation gets greedy and society more militaristic, these wise women are edged to the sidelines in favour of a thundering, male warrior god.
  • (4) Choosing brutal, militaristic language, he says: "The most important change in Whitehall is human resources rules.
  • (5) Max Hastings reckoned it had been fought in defence of "international law" and small nations, while Antony Beevor took aim at "anti-militarists" .
  • (6) Citizens of a militaristic empire are inexorably trained to adopt the mentality of their armies: just listen to Good Progressive Obama defenders swagger around like they're decorated, cigar-chomping combat veterans spouting phrases like "war is hell" and "collateral damage" to justify all of this.
  • (7) And then there were his sorties into international diplomacy, namely suggesting that Russia is a militaristic one-party state with a reputation for repressive police tactics.
  • (8) Aggressive, militaristic rhetoric constrains governments (or supra-national organisations like the EU), forcing them to respond with aggressive, militaristic action.
  • (9) By creating a militaristic and nationalist climate while pretending to conduct a comprehensive fight with terrorism, the government wants to force snap elections,” the HDP said on Saturday, underlining the need for renewed dialogue and negotiations in order to save the peace process, now hanging by a thread.
  • (10) His thesis is a bowdlerised version of historian Max Hastings 's argument that the conflict was a necessary act of resistance against a militaristic Germany bent on warmongering and imperial aggression.
  • (11) After all, it’s probably not hard to turn a neo-Nazi into a potential Republican voter by telling him that a corporatized, authoritarian, nationalistic, militaristic party is the only thing standing between him and effete, war-losing, left-wing elites who are trying to destroy the homeland via a fifth-column of non-native minorities, college professors, “homosexuals” and other cultural degenerates.
  • (12) But his LDP colleague Yohei Kono, a former Foreign Minister, said the anniversary was a reminder that Japan should never revisit its militarist past.
  • (13) The image of Bratton in Britain so far is of a zero-tolerance, tough-talking police leader, in keeping with an image that US police are gun toting and far more militaristic than their British equivalent.
  • (14) Welcome to Patriot Park: fun for all the family, with a militaristic twist.
  • (15) Yet Francis has a somewhat complicated past in Latin America, from allegations of complicity during Argentina’s military dictatorship in late 1970s to his lack of support for the more progressive liberation theology doctrine that influenced many Latin American clergy fighting against the region’s militaristic era, which his later evolution to the Buenos Aires archbishop who took the bus to work and is more comfortable with the poor than with the powerful hasn’t erased.
  • (16) It did so to uphold treaties, to preserve its democratic way of life and to prevent Western Europe being overrun by an expansionist, militaristic Germany.
  • (17) Is the Women’s Institute actually a militaristic training cell?
  • (18) Yet Schmidt's generation, if not Nazis, were militaristic.
  • (19) In 2002 came another big change in the form of the election of Erdoğan’s Islamist-leaning AKP – against the wishes of the secular, militarist establishment, which had insisted that the Kurdish crisis must be solved through force of arms.
  • (20) Yamaguchi said the rightwing campaign had echoes of the 1930s, when militarists carried out purges of liberal academics.

Warmonger


Definition:

  • (n.) One who makes ar a trade or business; a mercenary.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A statement issued by the North Korean military warned that it would carry out "strong physical retaliations without hesitation if South Korean warmongers carry out reckless military provocations".
  • (2) Iranians complain that it represents them as savage, murderous and warmongering.
  • (3) But he added: "The military warmongers are getting more undisguised in their moves to link the accident with the north though it was caused by their fault."
  • (4) Amid all the warmongering, bigotry and crusading, only one salient fact emerged from the Republican reactions to the Paris attacks: none of the party’s candidates are fit to govern in moments of international crisis.
  • (5) 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.
  • (6) Moments of grave decision – over Kosovo, Iraq or Libya – always produce intense public arguments, one camp branded warmongers, the other appeasers, each claiming the moral high ground.
  • (7) Eager to soften her image as an austerity warmonger in the runup to the polls, the chancellor has gone on a charm offensive, speaking often of the pain she feels for the difficulty ordinary Greeks have had to endure as a result of their country's profligacy.
  • (8) Bowie broke the silence in 2013 with The Next Day , a gnarly rock album spitting anger at warmongers, zombie celebrities and The Reaper with equal venom, as he prepares to “stumble to the graveyard and lay down by my parents”, adding archly, “just remember duckies, everybody gets got”.
  • (9) Clinton also offered special praise for Congress’s “leadership”, another departure in tone from Obama, whose White House has called sanctions advocates warmongers and who threatened in his State of the Union address on Tuesday to veto new sanctions legislation.
  • (10) It was Mr Milosevic, Mr Seselj's fellow prisoner in the Netherlands, who identified the utility of his warmongering extremism and brought him from the margins.
  • (11) It identified earlier than most that we had been let down by a political class, that the interests of ordinary people had been ignored in favor of warmongers and international business interests.
  • (12) That toxic blend of messianic warmongering abroad and McCarthyite witch-hunting at home – which gave us Iraq, Afghanistan, Guantánamo and the London bombings – is coursing through our public life again.
  • (13) His thesis is a bowdlerised version of historian Max Hastings 's argument that the conflict was a necessary act of resistance against a militaristic Germany bent on warmongering and imperial aggression.
  • (14) "What a bunch of warmongers we have in the White House.
  • (15) It was the moderates whose relentless warmongering granted the king his wish, eventually putting France in the most absurd situation: armies marching off to war under the command of a monarch whom everybody knew hoped for defeat.
  • (16) But we want peace, we will stick to peace, we will bury their warmongering at the polls.” *All names, except official and historical ones, have been changed
  • (17) Dobbs comments that the Russians tried to pretend that the outcome was "yet another triumph for Moscow's peace-loving foreign policy over warmongering imperialists", as "the supremely wise, always reasonable Soviet leadership had saved the world from the threat of nuclear destruction."
  • (18) And he explained his reasons went beyond him being no austerity warmonger.
  • (19) Gradually disillusionment sets in; in 1916 he talked of Jack's noble death but within 18 months he has become bitterly angry at Beaverbrook's warmongering Times and lambasts the incompetence of the generals and the politicians.
  • (20) There's all these contradictions, I mean, a president might be a terrible warmonger, but redeem himself by doing great work for Africa at the same time.

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