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
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
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
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
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
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
I’m hanging on a limb here, but anyone who picks up a book by Gloria Steinem probably knows that men can still be chauvinists and women can still be treated unfairly.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 23, 2015
But for the minority, which included both our pacifists and our chauvinists, it was either too much or too little.
From Before the War by Richard Burdon Haldane, Viscount Haldane
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