BELLIGERATI

(buh.LIJ.uh.rat.eye) n. Writers and other members of the intelligentsia who advocate war or imperialism. Posted on May 31, 2002 by Paul McFedries, the Word Spy. Example: How the war fevers raged in those days after Sept. 11. The nation's syndicated belligerati were beside themselves. Columnist Michael Kelly flayed the unconscionable pacifists as pro-terrorist and evil. Charles Krauthammer argued for bombing an enemy city, anywhere. —Michael Powell, An Eminence With No Shades of Gray, The Washington Post, May 5, 2002