11 example sentences using peacenik.
Peacenik used in a sentence
Peacenik in a sentence as a noun
That sounds like something that some kind of hippie peacenik might say, or Ronald Reagan.
This is like saying that peaceniks are, in reality, the most violent of all.
> This peacenik virtue signaling ******** is the naive privilege of spoiled children.
There are a lot of people that think that there are giant conspiracies run by environmentalists/hippies/peaceniks etc.
When there's mass arrests at a protest, it's good to be able to help a bunch of hastily-cuffed peaceniks get loose and melt away into the crowd before the paddy wagon shows up.
And those commercials—even as an avowed peacenik—always made us chuckle as both my wife and I remembered the over-the-top US military recruitment ads.
"You can be a peacenik conscientious objector who refuses to take sides in the war and still get caught in the crossfire while minding your own business and trying your hardest to stay out of the fray.
I think it's because we've finally figured out how to disentangle being pro-war from being pro-soldier, so that both warmongers and peaceniks can embrace members of the military.
I am not a peacenik by any means, if anything I am a hawk, particularly about russia, but I detest living in a state of forever war, undeclared and un-debated.
I mean, I like the idea of marketing to a peacenik, community minded, compassionate, etc person, but those are the least likely people to get a tough and sometimes shitty job where your life is on the line and you deal with humanity's worst people often at their worst.
Scare quotes because there's a lot of back-to-nature & peacenik baggage associated with the word "commune" that doesn't necessarily apply here -- it's just a different structure for production and employment that avoids the deleveraging effects of forcing people to compete for a spot in a shrinking global pool of jobs.
Peacenik definitions
someone who prefers negotiations to armed conflict in the conduct of foreign relations
See also: dove