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jingoistic

[ jing-goh-is-tik ]

adjective

  1. militantly nationalistic or chauvinistic:

    To be against the war in that jingoistic era was considered tantamount to treason.



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  • jin·go·ist noun adjective
  • jin·go·is·ti·cal·ly adverb
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Example Sentences

The album lives up to the urgent precedent set by peers like Green Day on “American Idiot,” which lambasted the jingoistic culture of the Bush presidency in 2004.

The industry has a history of high-octane patriotic, sometimes jingoistic, films.

From BBC

Trump is a political pervert: he’s perverted patriotism by jingoistically pairing it with Judaic-Christian theocracy, in an unholy matrimony.

From Salon

What the squad subsequently encounters feels like several strains of global terrorism reconfigured into a jingoistic theme park.

“I’m more conservative, but I’m not a typical Colonel Blimp,” Munger said in 1996, referring to the jingoistic, reactionary British cartoon character.

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