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chauvinism

[shoh-vuh-niz-uhm] / ˈʃoʊ vəˌnɪz əm /
NOUN
extreme devotion to a belief or nation
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Antonyms
WEAK
unbias


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Korda's only previous book, published in 1973, was called Male Chauvinism!

From Time Magazine Archive

Chauvinism and self- satirization are twinned in the Texas character.

From Time Magazine Archive

Chauvinism, in all its sexual as well as racial aspects, is the real enemy of all men and women who seek the one security that is viable—community—and the one freedom that is transcendant—individuation.

From Time Magazine Archive

For this characteristic Chauvinism Douglas paid the inevitable penalty.

From Stephen A. Douglas A Study in American Politics by Johnson, Allen

The long process of political argument was perhaps tending every day to the loosening and detaching of those easy convictions of a young Chauvinism, that had drawn him originally to Fontenoy's side.

From Sir George Tressady — Volume II by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.




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