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chauvinist

[shoh-vuh-nist] / ˈʃoʊ və nɪst /
NOUN
person who believes one gender is superior
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NOUN
zealously patriotic person
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Sacha Baron Cohen and Rosamund Pike star in a Netflix comedy about a corporate chauvinist who finds himself in a parallel universe—one in which the women are in charge.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026

Even the morbidly chauvinist NME succumbed, calling Ditto "the coolest person in rock".

From BBC ● Mar. 7, 2024

But, more importantly, they are subversive — a powerful statement of noncompliance to chauvinist systems of control.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2024

Moayed recalled saying that he didn’t want to play Torvald as a “chest-out” chauvinist, someone who would physically threaten his wife.

From New York Times ● May 23, 2023

But this last alternative seems to me to be special pleading: I am, reluctantly, a self-confessed carbon chauvinist.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

They did this as a way to gain status from the dominant group and overcome oppression by acting like male chauvinists.

From Salon ● Apr. 23, 2024

Her delightful novel “Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead” is about an astrology-obsessed woman who rails against the local hunters, policemen and other chauvinists.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 3, 2022

Against many chauvinists, Whyte was an early and fierce champion of the activist and author Jane Jacobs, who considered him one of her few friends in Manhattan.

From New York Times ● Jan. 12, 2022

Ventimiglia has made a career out of playing chauvinists as romantics, the type of guy who loves you so much he has to boss you around.

From Slate ● Sep. 19, 2016

The rhetorical exuberances of Teutonic chauvinists are accepted as plain statements of policy by those who would not listen to their own Jingoes.

From The Sacred Egoism of Sinn Féin by Ernest Augustus Boyd




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