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chauvinist

[shoh-vuh-nist] / ˈʃoʊ və nɪst /
NOUN
person who believes one gender is superior
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NOUN
zealously patriotic person
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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

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

If she were a male chauvinist, she said, she would have continued living as a man.

From New York Times ● Jul. 16, 2021

But this last alternative seems to me to be special pleading: I am, reluctantly, a self-confessed carbon chauvinist.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

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 the chauvinists of France spared no efforts to make use of Liebknecht and Luxemburg—even of Kautsky and Bernstein—in their own interests.

From Dictatorship vs. Democracy (Terrorism and Communism) by Leon Davidovich Trotzky




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