Warlike in a sentence as an adjective

He said:"No one has yet discovered any warlike purpose to be served by the theory of numbers or relativity, and it seems unlikely that anyone will do so for many years.

What Orwell means here is that people don't just want comfort and prosperity; they are in fact willing to actively sacrifice these things to achieve a vision, especially one expressed in warlike or patriotic terms.

And even people trying to be accurate and truthful are subject to all sorts of malfunctions....If you catalog all of the pernicious things humans do to themselves then **** sapiens comes out worse than any "forehead-alien/warlike species" from any sci-fi TV or movie property.

Warlike definitions

adjective

disposed to warfare or hard-line policies; "militant nations"; "hawkish congressman"; "warlike policies"

See also: militant hawkish

adjective

suggesting war or military life

See also: martial