jingoism
Example Sentences
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Without resorting to jingoism or over-sentimentality, he began to write with increasing tenderness about his native country—its climate, its countryside, its particular temperament.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026
Lest we forget, the Iraq War–era jingoism that inflected American pop culture at the time was also a fundamental motif of the 2000s internet.
From Slate • Mar. 20, 2026
The fear is patriotism will veer into jingoism in the galleries.
From BBC • Sep. 25, 2025
World War I had garnered tremendous support across Europe; those who had paid the price for civilians’ jingoism were treated as monstrous in part, Fitzharris argues, as a manifestation of collective guilt.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2022
They mostly don't think anything about jingoism or the war, except that they hope their boys won't go, and that the Keyser must be an 'ard-'earted man.
From Non-combatants and Others by Macaulay, Rose, Dame
Vocabulary lists containing jingoism
Star-Spangled Vocabulary: Patriotic Words
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Power Suffix: -ism
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