Synonyms for hawkish
ˈhɔ kɪʃhawk·ish

Princeton's WordNet

1. militant, hawkish, warlikeadjective

   disposed to warfare or hard-line policies

   "militant nations"; "hawkish congressman"; "warlike policies"

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1. List of paraphrases for "hawkish":

   hardline, hard-line, warmongering

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1. Macan Nia:

   As expected, she left the door pretty open for all options in her testimony. She was neither dovish nor hawkish here, they are likely to raise rates before June, and from June going forward, it will be very data dependent.

2. Tom Roseen:

   While investors were keeping a keen eye on the FOMC (Federal Open Market Committee) meeting, which concluded on Wednesday on a more hawkish note than some anticipated, taxable-fixed income mutual funds took in small amounts of net new money - $348 million-plus, with ETF investors ... withdrawing $700 million, interestingly, though, both investors types were net purchasers of municipal bond funds, injecting $877 million into conventional open-end funds and $314 million for ETFs, respectively.

3. Angus Nicholson:

   The market seems to be nervous about U.S. data holding up better than expected and two Fed speakers coming out and being hawkish for a rate hike in June, that has sent some jitters through the market.

4. Lindsey Graham:

   I'm a pretty hawkish fellow, but I learned a long time ago ... that you are not going to win this war by killing terrorists, we have a moment now that we haven't had in decades.

5. Kelly Bogdanov:

   Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen really struck a tone between dovish and hawkish, and I think delivered, for the most part, what the market needed. Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen was dovish enough to signal that a March rate hike is probably off the table but hawkish enough to leave the impression Federal Reserve is confident the economic recovery will persist, that's very important for stocks because as long as we can avoid a recession, this correction will probably work itself out and we'll have the opportunity to bounce back.