peacenik

peace·nik

(pēs′nĭk)

n. Informal

A political activist who publicly opposes war or the proliferation of weapons; a pacifist.

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peacenik

(ˈpiːsnɪk)

someone who is opposed to armed conflict

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peace•nik

(ˈpis nɪk)

n.

Slang. an antiwar activist.

[1960–65, Amer.]

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peacenik - someone who prefers negotiations to armed conflict in the conduct of foreign relations

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disarmer, pacificist, pacifist - someone opposed to violence as a means of settling disputes

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peacenik

[ˈpiːsnɪk] N → pacifista mf, milikaka mf (Sp)

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peacenik

n (inf) → Pazifist(in) m(f)

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IANS NEW DELHI VETERAN journalist Kuldip Nayar, who fell foul of the establishment and was jailed during Emergency and a peacenik on Indo-Pak relations, died at a hospital here.

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Corbyn and his party machine could have handled the latest onslaught better, but the demonisation of the bearded peacenik is as odious as it is calculated.

Peacenik suffers odious smears

Hitchens was a man of many contradictions: a Marxist in youth who longed for acceptance among the social elites; a peacenik who revered the military; a champion of the Left who was nonetheless pro-life, pro-war-on-terror, and after 9/11 something of a neocon; and while he railed against God on stage, he maintained meaningful--though largely hidden from public view--friendships with evangelical Christians like Francis Collins, Douglas Wilson, and the author Larry Alex Taunton.

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Despite this, Corbyn sees himself as a kind of peacenik, and is now facing a problem over whether he will wear a red poppy or a white one on Remembrance Sunday.

A redesign of the poppy needed; Views of Wales

His peacenik stand goes down well with organisations branded terror groups such as Hamas and Hezbollah.

He could be on the right track

Defiance comes in many forms, but in all fairness, Sabeen's legacy would live on best if we were to believe in the strength of us as a people, united in purpose - and also in peace, for she was a peacenik for sure.

A dream interrupted

The Germany of the victorious Angela Merkel, the second most powerful political leader in the world, is the peacenik nation of the West.

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Dan Nichols is one of the nation's most beloved Jewish rockers; Dawud Wharnsby is a Canadian troubadour living in Pakistan; David LaMotte is a singer-songwriter and peacenik in the old folk tradition.

Students' interfaith initiative uses language of music

Although the Derry peacenik is not everyone's cup of tea, he's got a loyal following and his support can't dip below somewhere in the 15 - 20% range.

POLITICS IS FUN! You may need a bit of convincing, however.

Randa wrote a column in the Dover Sherborn Press that comes right out of the peacenik playbook: