jingo
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Despite winning the Nobel prize, Kipling's reputation has suffered over his association with British imperialism – he was described as a "jingo imperialist" by George Orwell, who also called him "the prophet of British Imperialism".
From The Guardian ● Feb. 25, 2013
Photograph: EO Hoppe/Getty Images For George Orwell, Rudyard Kipling was "a jingo imperialist … morally insensitive and aesthetically disgusting".
From The Guardian ● Jun. 21, 2012
Your twitter name, @edballsmp, might be factually accurate but, by jingo, it's dull.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 3, 2011
In London, the empire-minded Winston Churchill railed at such softness, and the jingo press jeered.
From Time Magazine Archive
“By jingo, we can get them now,” cried one of the men.
From "The Fighting Ground" by Avi
He and the Sublime Emperor faced another assault by Japan's big navy jingoes.
From Time Magazine Archive
Thus I have always been against the pacifists during the quarrel, and against the jingoes at its close..
From Time Magazine Archive
U. S. jingoes predicted that Britain would send warships to guard her people in Nicaragua the instant the U. S. withdrew, Monroe Doctrine or no Monroe Doctrine.
From Time Magazine Archive
In one laconic sentence the German Ambassador to Japan, Major General Eugen Ott, last week set a temporary limit to German war aims and gave Japanese jingoes an encouraging pinch in the backside.
From Time Magazine Archive
In this one does not even regret his coldness; it is an honourable contrast to the blundering emotionalism of the jingoes and flagellomaniacs.
From George Bernard Shaw by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
