anti-war
adjective
an·ti-war
ˌan-tē-ˈwȯr 
ˌan-tī-
variants
or antiwar
: opposed to war
anti-war demonstrations
antiwar activists
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These are similar, if not the same, images as were included in parts of Paul Cronin’s epic documentary A Time to Stir, which chronicled Columbia students’ anti-war actions.
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Lovia Gyarkye, HollywoodReporter, 16 Apr. 2025
Last February, a Russian anti-war project named Get Lost, which was created to help Russia's men evade or escape conscription in Ukraine, said cases of desertion from the military had increased tenfold that year.
—Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Apr. 2025
Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza’s Warfare is an admirable attempt to counter the truism that there’s no such thing as an anti-war movie — that all war movies, however gruesome or wrenching, effectively (and often unwittingly) wind up glamorizing combat to some degree.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 11 Apr. 2025
There are some that will inevitably view this as more romanticized, pro-military propaganda, and others who will easily characterize this as more of an anti-war parable.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 9 Apr. 2025
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Lovia Gyarkye, HollywoodReporter, 16 Apr. 2025
Last February, a Russian anti-war project named Get Lost, which was created to help Russia's men evade or escape conscription in Ukraine, said cases of desertion from the military had increased tenfold that year.
—Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Apr. 2025
Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza’s Warfare is an admirable attempt to counter the truism that there’s no such thing as an anti-war movie — that all war movies, however gruesome or wrenching, effectively (and often unwittingly) wind up glamorizing combat to some degree.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 11 Apr. 2025
There are some that will inevitably view this as more romanticized, pro-military propaganda, and others who will easily characterize this as more of an anti-war parable.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 9 Apr. 2025
See All Example Sentences for anti-war
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“Anti-war.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/anti-war. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.
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