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- noun Plural form of
chauvinist .
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Examples
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And if you notice the 'news' coming from the USA, the fear-mongers are on the loose, the chauvinists are abundant and vocal, and the economy has gone down the drain.
US/Mexico relations 2003
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As I recall, those were *feminist* notions in the 60’s, and people who rejected them were called chauvinists ““ generating the culture that allowed rape to germinate.
Yes some guys are assholes, but it’s still your fault if you get raped 2005
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In any event, the evidence is not consistent with the view that it is only male chauvinists who are thronging to church over the objections of their more liberated spouses.
American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010
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So estranged are the Vatican and its chauvinists from the kind of holy integrity this priest epitomizes, they don't know what to make of him.
Michele Somerville: Roy Bourgeois Detained At The Vatican For The Crime Of Primacy Of Conscience Michele Somerville 2011
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I bet chauvinists would wish people like you never existed but then that's their headache.
Examining Negative Quotations that affect women image/dignity/Fundamental Rights 2009
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Kudos is due to Sarah Millican, whose brilliant eye for observation and viciously acerbic style gives her the chops to win over all but the most committed chauvinists.
This week's new comedy James Kettle 2010
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Not surprisingly, even before the commission delivered it's report, the proposed museum was being attacked by cultural chauvinists and deficit hawks as unaffordable, unwarranted and unnecessary.
Guy Garcia: Are Hispanics the New American Reality? Claro Que Si! But Will They Get Their Own Museum? Quien Sabe. Guy Garcia 2011
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Despite the fact that American films are often among the top box-office draws — currently, "Despicable Me" and "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps" — there remain a few cultural chauvinists, such as my first hairdresser here, who claim that they never sully their eyeballs with American films.
It's Lights, Camera, Strike in France Lennox Morrison 2010
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To some degree this seems to be rooted in religious tradition, and to some degree these are flames that are deliberately fanned today by the most fervent Israeli and other chauvinists.
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So estranged are the Vatican and its chauvinists from the kind of holy integrity this priest epitomizes, they don't know what to make of him.
Michele Somerville: Roy Bourgeois Detained At The Vatican For The Crime Of Primacy Of Conscience Michele Somerville 2011
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