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• a  of or relating to persons convinced of the superiority of their own gender or kind
• s  fanatically patriotic

• It's a satisfying, if slightly chauvinistic tale, but experts in human evolution have known for years that it is dead wrong.
• Members are fanatical young men, Army officers, hooligans, chauvinistic politicians, gamblers, ronins (formerly knights who had lost their lords, now cutthroats in general) and .
• Call me chauvinistic, but I witnessed women re-enacting Lord of the Flies with blouses.

• flag-waving
• jingoistic
• nationalistic
• ultranationalistic
• superpatriotic

News & Articles

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• With Gulliver Asleep, The Lilliputians Are Almost Done Smothering The U.S. Economy
  Jonathan Swift’s classic novel Gulliver’s Travels—and in particular the novel’s first section in which the tiny Lilliputians succeeded in immobilizing Gulliver by binding him with thousands of their tiny, threadlike ropes—serves as a literary metaphor for today’s American economy. While our friends on the left may complain that it is hyperbolic and chauvinistic to describe the American economy ...
  June 20, 2013 - Forbes

Quotes

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• Naomi Chazan in USA Today
  Former lawmaker Naomi Chazan says the jabs are built on "deep chauvinistic foundations."
• Charles Clarke in ic Wales
  We should finish with 'dog whistle' language, such as 'British jobs for British workers', which flatter some of the most chauvinistic and backward-looking parts of British society,Mr Clarke said. "We should suspend the black arts of...
• Arbaaz Khan in Sify
  My character in the film is that of a typical husband, a little chauvinistic. He is always busy with his work and in turn pulls his wife down constantly and is forever eroding her self-esteem,said Arbaaz.