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Chauvinistic   /tʃˌoʊvənˈɪstɪk/   Listen
Chauvinistic

adjective
1.
Of or relating to persons convinced of the superiority of their own gender or kind.
2.
Fanatically patriotic.  Synonyms: flag-waving, jingoistic, nationalistic, superpatriotic, ultranationalistic.






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"Chauvinistic" Quotes from Famous Books



... no less than the Governments represent them to be? The necessity for Great Britain possessing an all-powerful fleet that will keep her in touch with her colonies if she is not to lose them altogether, is self-evident, and understood by even the most Chauvinistic German. The necessity for Germany's possessing a fleet strong enough to make her rights respected is as self-evident. Moreover, if Germany's fleet is a luxury, as Mr. Winston Churchill says it is, she deserves and can afford it. As a nation she has prospered ...
— William of Germany • Stanley Shaw

... ambitions of some smaller Powers have acquired a new and dangerous energy. They are not the less dangerous when, as is indeed most frequently the case, they merely represent the ambition, not of the people as a whole, but merely of a military or bureaucratic clique, of a small chauvinistic group, yet noisy and energetic enough to win over unscrupulous politicians. A German soldier, a young journalist of ability, recently wrote home from the trenches: "I have often dreamed of a new Europe in which all the nations would be fraternally ...
— Essays in War-Time - Further Studies In The Task Of Social Hygiene • Havelock Ellis

... Affairs cast a firebrand into the very midst of the Norwegian people[5:1], who to that time had stood unanimous towards the claim of a mutual Foreign Minister of State for the Union. In the struggle for the political ascendency chauvinistic strongwords became more and more rife. The national sensitiveness, already considerable, became excited to the utmost under the influence of the suggestive eloquence of BJOeRNSON and other agitators. The suspiciousness disaffection ...
— The Swedish-Norwegian Union Crisis - A History with Documents • Karl Nordlund

... Don't fool yourselves, and don't try to fool me. If you want to write some themes about Sanford that have some sense and truth in them, some honest observation, go ahead; but don't pass in any more chauvinistic bunk. I'm ...
— The Plastic Age • Percy Marks

... groups and leaders: numerous religious or militant/chauvinistic organizations, including Vishwa Hindu Parishad, Bajrang Dal, and Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh; various separatist groups seeking greater communal and/or regional autonomy, including the ...
— The 2002 CIA World Factbook • US Government



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