pacifistic

Example Sentences

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His father was the choir director of the First Congregational Church in Norwich, elevating the prominence of the pacifistic family.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 5, 2018

Yet Orwell belonged for a time to the pacifistic Independent Labour Party, deplored the sadism of communists in Spain and felt uneasy with gratuitous violence in media.

From Washington Post • Feb. 24, 2017

Leo Szilard, an escaped Hungarian physicist, took a draft of a letter to Einstein, who, although pacifistic, signed the final version.

From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015

Still, it’s odd for the commander in chief to express an essentially pacifistic sentiment at the Pentagon.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 7, 2015

Are we then to admit the "inconsistency"—not casual and incidental, as conceived in this pacifistic interpretation, but deliberate and flagrant?

From Religion and the War by Various