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hawkish
adjective as in aggressive
adjective as in chilly
adjective as in cold
adjective as in combative
adjective as in cool
adjective as in fighting
Strong matches
adjective as in freezing
adjective as in shivery
Weak matches
- algid
- arctic
- below freezing
- below zero
- benumbed
- biting
- bitter
- blasting
- bleak
- boreal
- brisk
- brumal
- chill
- chilled
- chilly
- cool
- crisp
- cutting
- frigid
- frore
- frosty
- frozen
- gelid
- glacial
- have goose bumps
- hiemal
- hyperborean
- icebox
- iced
- icy
- inclement
- intense
- keen
- nipping
- nippy
- numbed
- numbing
- one-dog night
- penetrating
- piercing
- polar
- raw
- rimy
- severe
- sharp
- Siberian
- sleety
- snappy
- snowy
- stinging
- two-dog night
- wintry
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Example Sentences
But, under the hawkish eye of the media and through a heavily active social media presence, she carried on as usual.
Is she too hawkish for the activists who helped make her vote for the Iraq War so costly back in the 2008 campaign?
Conservatives who favor a hawkish foreign policy will claim otherwise, of course.
Later in that same show, guest Hillary Clinton hawked her new book together with her hawkish views on the Middle East.
Of course, Clinton has always been more hawkish on Iraq than Obama.
The Luftwaffe Marshal gasped, but swallowed the cry of fright as Dave's gun came within ten inches of his thin, hawkish nose.
His eyes were large and gray; his nose of a hawkish shape; his lips very thin.
His long face had a hawkish cast, and it was gray, not with age, but with the sage-gray of the desert.
His hawkish features, upturned moustache, and colourless skin gave him a truly Machiavellian aspect.
The proprietor, a drawn, unhappy looking creature, and a hawkish looking German assistant welcomed me cordially.
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On this page you'll find 321 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to hawkish, such as: combative, contentious, destructive, intrusive, threatening, and advancing.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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