Crossword clues for chauvinist
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Chauvinism \Chau"vin*ism\, n. [F. chauvinisme, from Nicolas Chauvin, a character represented as making grotesque and threatening displays of his attachment to his fallen chief, Napoleon I., in 1815 (in the play La Cocarde tricolor, 1831).]
Blind and absurd devotion to a fallen leader or an obsolete cause; hence, absurdly vainglorious or exaggerated patriotism.
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exaggerated and unreasoning partisanship to any group or cause; -- as, male chauvinism, i.e. belief in the superiority of males. [PJC] -- Chau"vin*ist, n. & adj. -- Chau`vin*is"tic, a.
Note: To have a generous belief in the greatness of one's country is not chauvinism. It is the character of the latter quality to be wildly extravagant, to be fretful and childish and silly, to resent a doubt as an insult, and to offend by its very frankness.
--Prof. H. Tuttle.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1877, from French chauviniste, from Chauvin (see chauvinism). Related: Chauvinistic (1870).
Wiktionary
a. (context pejorative English) chauvinistic. n. (context pejorative English) A chauvinistic person.
WordNet
n. a person with a prejudiced belief in the superiority of his or her own kind
an extreme bellicose nationalist [syn: jingoist, jingo, flag-waver, hundred-percenter, patrioteer]
Usage examples of "chauvinist".
She had mounted an unrelenting attack on the antiabortionists and had crucified in debate those male chauvinists who without personal risk tried to legislate what women might do with their bodies.
If science fiction readers had remained almost entirely masculine--even had the acne cleared up and the youth withered--I think science fiction would have remained male chauvinist in the crudest possible way.
You are what was known in the latter twentieth century as a male chauvinist pig V' Morgan's thumb and index finger followed the line of his thick mustache.
I said, had you been the one transported into the twentieth century, you would be a classic male chauvinist pig.
Not that I was a common or garden male chauvinist, of course, even before I changed-we northern scum don't always conform to stereotype.
If science fiction readers had remained almost entirely masculine--even had the acne cleared up and the youth withered--I think science fiction would have remained male chauvinist in the crudest possible way.
He supposed he was a male chauvinist because he'd never been convinced that women could be equal to men on the police force.
I could almost feel sorry for what's-er-nameAngelotrying to convince a bunch of middle-aged male chauvinists that a Gothic novel by an unknown woman writer is worth that much.
And by the standards of those super-male chauvinists, the Greek philosophers, earth could only be considered feminine passive, acted upon instead of active.
She probably spent a lot of time defending her abilities to the various rednecks and chauvinists she encountered.
There were problems, to be sure: malcontents, injury collectors, bureaucrats (dull but useful for keeping records), fascists, reformers, assorted chauvinists and bigots.
She told me it was her big chance and I had to be the most insensitive male chauvinist oinker in the United States to be dragging my feet, and furthermore she'd had it with California anyway.
I had forgotten that Mrs Justice Appelby sat in the Family Division of the High Court of Justice, and her Ladyship was known as the only genuine male chauvinist pig in the building.
Secondly, they engender jingoist and chauvinist attitudes, sometimes to quite an extreme degree.
He was too busy implementing his newest fund-raising scheme, the Male Chauvinist Organization (MACHO), which he hoped would milk mucho denaros from Russ Meyers, illegal abortionists, pimps, industrialists who regularly paid female workers thirty percent of the salaries of men doing the same jobs, and all others threatened by the Women's Liberation Movement.