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belligerati

noun

Etymology

Blend of belligerent + literati which is also the plural of belligerātus.

  1. borrowed from līterātī
  2. compounded as belligerati — “belligerent + literati”

Definitions

  1. Literary people, authors — literati — who promote wars of aggression.

    • I am not, in this instance, referring to the belligerati - Salman Rushdie, Martin Amis and chums - ever-present in the liberal press on both sides of the Atlantic.
    • They are the belligerati who are given opinion columns and radio talkback programs; who are accorded the status of minor celebrities; and there can at times seem no end to the uniquely Australian cross of their public bullying
    • Since neoconservatives and the liberal belligerati have sought to appropriate these ideological resources on behalf of imperialism, aspects of this question will be examined in chapter 1.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for belligerati. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA