jingo

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

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

The two bankers he persuaded to the rescue of his debt-ridden, jingo client were, ironically, Russian-born Boston Banker Serge Semenenko and an Italian immigrant's son, San Francisco's A. P. Giannini.

From Time Magazine Archive

"In a democracy everybody speaks,” said Dad, "so, by jingo, start speaking.”

From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey