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belligerati
belligerati
English
Noun
belligerati pl (plural only)
- Literary people, authors — literati — who promote wars of aggression.
- 2005, Tariq Ali, Street Fighting Years: An Autobiography Of The Sixties, page 19:
- 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.
- 2011, Andrew Charlton, Man-Made World, page 88:
- 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
- 2011, Richard Seymour, American Insurgents: A Brief History of American Anti-Imperialism, page xviii:
- 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.
- 2005, Tariq Ali, Street Fighting Years: An Autobiography Of The Sixties, page 19:
Latin
Participle
belligerātī
- nominative masculine plural of belligerātus
- genitive masculine singular of belligerātus
- genitive neuter singular of belligerātus
- vocative masculine plural of belligerātus