chauvinist
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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
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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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