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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

Even the morbidly chauvinist NME succumbed, calling Ditto "the coolest person in rock".

From BBC • Mar. 7, 2024

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

The movie, a major sleeper in fourth place in its ninth week, will forever be remarkable for Bruce Willis’s hero journey from chauvinist cop to husband of the year.

From New York Times • Oct. 2, 2020

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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