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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

But, more importantly, they are subversive — a powerful statement of noncompliance to chauvinist systems of control.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 6, 2024

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

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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