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Meanings of peacenik in English

Someone who prefers negotiations to armed conflict in the conduct of foreign relations.

Synonyms
Examples for "dove"
Examples for "dove"
1
Abishai exclaimed: The dove is the symbol of the people of Israel.
The Legends of the Jews — Volume 4
2
He needed work, but we dove out a bit too far there.
Wired
3
A lion in strength and might; a dove in gentleness and humility.
The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick / Including the Life by ...
4
A lion in strength and power; a dove in gentleness and humility.
The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick / Including the Life by ...
5
I perceive it in the air, as the dove scents the vulture.
Old Fritz and the New Era
Usage of peacenik in English
1
The end of the cold war started on the banner of a peacenik.
The Guardian
2
The moment demanded large mendacious strokes-buthe was a peacenik, it turned out.
All the sad young literary men
3
He needed them to see Brian as not only a peacenik but a devoted father.
Public secrets
4
The sole lapse is a gratuitous swipe at "her peacenik and artistic pals".
The Irish Times
5
The challenge though is to know when to fight and when to be more of that peacenik.
Ebony
6
Desmond Lynch, the medievalist and peacenik.
The Descent
7
But Dean is no peacenik.
The Guardian
8
Democrats in Iowa were decidedly liberal, with a peacenik streak; Hillary's war record was more vexatious there than anywhere else.
Game change: obama and the clintons, mccain and palin, and the r...
9
He played for an exhausting two-and-a-half hours before winding up with an second encore consisting of two unashamedly peacenik songs.
The Guardian
10
Homer was no peacenik.
The Guardian
11
If a socialist peacenik becomes leader of Britain's Labour Party on September 12th, it is not somehow a problem for the Conservatives, too.
The Irish Times
12
But the guy who lectured over the last two days, at the Army and Naval War Colleges, didn't sound much like a peacenik.
Wired
13
Galileo's parade would not be rained on by a bunch of peaceniks.
Underground: Hacking, madness and obsession on the electronic fr...
14
There are peaceniks on both sides who have held endless candlelit vigils on the borders.
The Guardian
15
Its hallucinatory quality made Kurt Vonnegut a hero to hippies and peaceniks, writes Benjamin Kunkel
The Guardian
16
Whenever shots ring out they berate the BBC for being a bunch of whingeing commie peaceniks.
The Guardian
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