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As adjectives the difference between hawkish and hackish

is that hawkish is supportive of warlike foreign policy; bellicose; inclined toward military action while hackish is characteristic of hacks, or inferior writers.

hawkish

English

Adjective

(en adjective) (War Hawk)
  • Supportive of warlike foreign policy; bellicose; inclined toward military action.
    • The Prime Minister could count on the support of a hawkish majority in Parliament to support the invasion.
  • Favouring increasing interest rates; inclined towards increasing interest rates.
    • The Federal Reserve's recent statement on the slowing of inflation was interpreted as hawkish by the market.

    Antonyms

    * (bellicose) dovish

    Derived terms

    * hawkishly * hawkishness

    hackish

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Characteristic of hacks, or inferior writers.
  • (computing, informal) Using, or characterised by, hacks: poorly designed workarounds.
  • * 2003 , Erik T Ray, Learning XML?
    • A hackish solution is to use code switching, a technique of replacing a byte with a sequence of bytes headed by a special control character.
  • * 2006 , Bruce Perry, Ajax hacks?
    • The first two hacks in this chapter provide, well, hackish solutions to that conundrum.
  • (computing, informal) Characteristic of hackers, especially slang; e. g., hackish humor .

    • Synonyms

    * hacky

    Related terms

    * hackishly