jingo
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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
Indonesia's President Sukarno, who sorely lacks troopships, trained soldiers and hard cash for his threatened invasion of Netherlands New Guinea, is banking on jingo power to persuade the world that he means business.
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
In one laconic sentence the German Ambassador to Japan, Major General Eugen Ott, last week set a temporary limit to German war aims and gave Japanese jingoes an encouraging pinch in the backside.
From Time Magazine Archive
Thus I have always been against the pacifists during the quarrel, and against the jingoes at its close..
From Time Magazine Archive
He and the Sublime Emperor faced another assault by Japan's big navy jingoes.
From Time Magazine Archive
U. S. jingoes predicted that Britain would send warships to guard her people in Nicaragua the instant the U. S. withdrew, Monroe Doctrine or no Monroe Doctrine.
From Time Magazine Archive
In their editorials and speeches Ionesco and his followers were jingoes trying to drive the nation to a Rumanian Sedan.
From Antwerp to Gallipoli A Year of the War on Many Fronts—and Behind Them by Ruhl, Arthur
