warmonger

Example Sentences

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LONDON—When Spotify founder Daniel Ek in 2021 announced he was investing more than $100 million in European defense-tech startup Helsing, musicians and streamers across the continent slammed the Swedish entrepreneur as a warmonger.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 24, 2025

Bismarck was a cacophony of contradictions: an autocrat who fostered democracy, a fierce Prussian who promoted German nationalism, an ultraconservative who courted socialists, a warmonger who mastered diplomacy.

From Washington Post • Jan. 7, 2022

Playing down his image as a warmonger, sources claim that in his new role he sees himself as an honest broker between agencies.

From Economist • Mar. 28, 2018

The older generation remembers Lord Amherst not as a genocidal warmonger, but as the inspiration for a beloved college fight song, written by a member of the class of 1906.

From New York Times • Aug. 4, 2016

He was describing the boardroom confrontation with the man who called him a warmonger.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan