jingoistic

[ jing-goh-is-tik ]

/ ˌdʒɪŋ goʊˈɪs tɪk /

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adjective

militantly nationalistic or chauvinistic:To be against the war in that jingoistic era was considered tantamount to treason.

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Origin of jingoistic

jin·go·ist, noun, adjectivejin·go·is·ti·cal·ly, adverb

By going, they were doing their duty as Americans to expand the frontier—a jingoistic rhetoric with godly Manifest Destiny overtones.
‘The Oregon Trail’ Isn’t Just a Game. It’s an American Legacy.|klindsey|December 9, 2021|Outside Online
Say “freedom,” and you simultaneously evoke jingoistic policies and legacies of resistance, jarring opportunism and escapist tranquility, defiance and ease, protection and condescension, potential and burden.
Embracing the sprawling contradictions of ‘freedom’|Meara Sharma|September 10, 2021|Washington Post
While we don’t watch the Olympics with a particularly jingoistic mindset, that American edge with female athletes was important because doping penalties did not slow Russia — excuse us, the ROC — down at all.
We (Mostly) Never Doubted Team USA|Sarah Shachat|August 10, 2021|FiveThirtyEight
Mary Lou Retton’s all-around gold in 1984 at the jingoistic boycotted Games was portrayed as a triumph of capitalism over Communism.
Why It’s Not Surprising That Simone Biles Cheered For Angelina Melnikova|Dvora Meyers|July 30, 2021|FiveThirtyEight

In the fevered race for power and supremacy, concerns about ethics and sustainability are drowned out by jingoistic cheers.
China’s path to modernization has, for centuries, gone through my hometown|Yangyang Cheng|June 30, 2021|MIT Technology Review
The voice, the jingoistic voice, bordering on fascist voice, is what is so very loud now.
Literary City: Ahdaf Soueif’s Cairo|Henry Krempels|February 7, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Paradoxically, democratic reforms have fed the jingoistic chorus.
Burma’s Rohingya Muslims Targeted by Buddhist Mob Violence|Brendan Brady|June 27, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Nor was she jingoistic, concluding: “It was very sad that we had to do it, but we really had no choice.”
The Lady Thatcher I Knew|Andrew Roberts|April 9, 2013|DAILY BEAST
I mean the people who actually saw the war through a conservative—as opposed to jingoistic and imperialistic—lens.
How Conservatives Betrayed Their Principles in the Iraq War|Peter Beinart|December 19, 2011|DAILY BEAST
The press is almost universally jingoistic, because it is financially interested in sensationalism.
Proportional Representation Applied To Party Government|T. R. Ashworth and H. P. C. Ashworth
He knew the game well, and was able to inspire a keenness that was not jingoistic.
The Loom of Youth|Alec Waugh