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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

On 20 September 1973, an estimated 90 million people around the world watched Billie Jean King beat self-proclaimed chauvinist Bobby Riggs in a best-of-five match at the Houston Astrodome.

From BBC ● Dec. 27, 2025

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2024

But Daisy has married the brutish Tom Buchanan, a chauvinist blowhard with a violent temper and a mistress on the side.

From New York Times ● Jun. 29, 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

This especially pleases Midwest chauvinists, who have had to contend with curdled despisers from — Et tu, Brute? — the Midwest.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 30, 2022

But for the most part, “The Silent Party” is a quietly intense drama, focusing closely on its heroine and the unbearable pressures of a life spent surrounded by hyper-controlling chauvinists.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 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

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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