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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 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

AP: A year later, you famously beat self-proclaimed chauvinist Bobby Riggs in the “Battle of the Sexes” tennis match viewed by millions on TV.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 23, 2022

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

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

It is perhaps worth mentioning here that, for Manhattan club chauvinists of the late ’70s, Brooklyn was less “downtown” than a world apart.

From New York Times ● Oct. 6, 2021

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

Victor Hugo's inheritance, which was ill administered by chatterers and chauvinists, by Déroulède and such poets with their big drums and their trumpet-flourishes, has been taken over in France by Verhaeren.

From ?mile Verhaeren by Stefan Zweig


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