anti-war

adjective

an·ti-war ˌan-tē-ˈwȯr

ˌan-tī-

variants or antiwar

: opposed to war

anti-war demonstrations

antiwar activists

Examples of anti-war in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Berger made a cacophonous, confusing mess of the anti-war classic All Quiet on the Western Front back in 2022, and mistook its profound statements about the toll of conflict as an excuse for self-conscious seriousness drenched in bloody sturm-und-drang spectacle. —

David Fear, Rolling Stone, 25 Oct. 2024 The liberal Bay Area city, known for its hippie counterculture, free speech and anti-war movements, helped shape Harris early on. —

Mackenzie Mays, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2024 The book recounts a story from 1972, when Lennon and Ono were guests at a party where the former Beatles singer got drunk while watching the presidential election results between Richard Nixon and George McGovern at anti-war activist Jerry Rubin’s Greenwich Village apartment. —

Liz McNeil, People.com, 22 Oct. 2024 Driving the news: The altercation occurred before an Oct. 6 show by Bread and Puppet, a renowned anti-war theater group that had already performed there several times, NLNA president Jeff Hornstein tells Axios. —

Isaac Avilucea, Axios, 18 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for anti-war

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