לדלג לתוכן הראשי

noun

chauvinism

fanatical patriotism

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Six example sentences with chauvinism, each labelled with its topic.

  • Newspapers in 1914 whipped up a chauvinism that made any doubt about the war sound like treason.

    History

  • The film mocks the chauvinism of its hero, who insists his small country invented every dish on the menu.

    Movies

  • The candidate's chauvinism played well at home but cost him every meeting he took abroad that summer.

    Politics

  • The satirist's target is chauvinism, and his narrator insists that no foreign poet has ever written a decent line.

    Literature

  • Economic chauvinism, the belief that only home-made goods deserve to be bought, has cost consumers dearly wherever it took hold.

    Economics

  • Tournament commentary slid into chauvinism, blaming every call against the home team on referees from abroad.

    Basketball

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