jingo
Example Sentences
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Despite winning the Nobel prize, Kipling's reputation has suffered over his association with British imperialism – he was described as a "jingo imperialist" by George Orwell, who also called him "the prophet of British Imperialism".
From The Guardian • Feb. 25, 2013
Photograph: EO Hoppe/Getty Images For George Orwell, Rudyard Kipling was "a jingo imperialist … morally insensitive and aesthetically disgusting".
From The Guardian • Jun. 21, 2012
Your twitter name, @edballsmp, might be factually accurate but, by jingo, it's dull.
From The Guardian • Apr. 3, 2011
To embrace them now may be a complicated, belated and awkward exercise, but it should be done�done with a clear historical eye, without pity or jingo or other illusions.
From Time Magazine Archive
Or some dumb jingo in his hard hat and Bomb Hanoi button, or one of LBJ’s pretty daughters, or Westmoreland’s whole handsome family—nephews and nieces and baby grandson.
From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
