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noun

jingoism

an appeal intended to arouse patriotic emotions

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

  • The rally leaned on jingoism, all flags and marching bands, with barely a sentence about the actual budget.

    Politics

  • Newspapers of the era traded in jingoism, printing maps of the empire beside verses about the flag.

    History

  • The wartime shorts are studied today as jingoism, engineered to make audiences stand and cheer at the anthem.

    Movies

  • Wartime music halls sold jingoism by the song, with choruses about the flag that audiences bellowed back at the stage.

    Music

  • Critics accused the poet of jingoism, since his verses praised the empire's soldiers while ignoring what the campaigns cost.

    Literature

  • The tariff campaign relied on jingoism, waving flags at rallies rather than explaining what the duties would do to prices.

    Economics

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