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jingoist
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Word definitions for jingoist in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. an extreme bellicose nationalist [syn: chauvinist , jingo , flag-waver , hundred-percenter , patrioteer ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
jingoist \jin"go*ist\, n. One who is jingoistic; a bellicose patriot; an extreme bellicose nationalist; an aggressive chauvinist. Syn: chauvinist, jingo, flag-waver, hundred-percenter.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. jingoistic; extremely supportive of warlike foreign policy. n. One who advocates an aggressive nationalism; one who vociferously supports a nation's military aims.
Usage examples of jingoist.
Party,' the strange-seeming but politically prescient annular agnation of ultra-right jingoist hunt-deer-with-automatic-weapons types and far-left macrobiotic Save-the-Ozone, -Rain-Forests, -Whales, -Spotted-Owl-and-High-pH-Waterways ponytailed granola-crunchers, a surreal union of both Rush L.
When certain jingoists tried to force the proposed agency back into the military, he stood forth as the acknowledged military hero in Congress: “Ike’s the best commander in chief we’ve had since Teddy Roosevelt, and if he wants it in civilian hands, so do I.
Furthermore, Smuts had made a political misjudgement by inviting the British Royal Family to visit the country, and their presence had served to polarize public feelings between the English-speaking jingoists and the Afrikaners.
Secondly, they engender jingoist and chauvinist attitudes, sometimes to quite an extreme degree.