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chauvinism

/shoh-vuh-niz-uhm/US // ˈʃoʊ vəˌnɪz əm //UK // (ˈʃəʊvɪˌnɪzəm) //

大男子主义,大国沙文主义,大国主义,沙文主义

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : zealous and aggressive patriotism or blind enthusiasm for military glory.
    • : biased devotion to any group, attitude, or cause: religious chauvinism.
    • : the denigration, disparagement, and patronization of a particular gender based on the belief that one gender is inferior to another and thus deserving of less than equal treatment or benefit.Compare male chauvinism.

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Examples

  • The undertones of toxic masculinity and chauvinism that have dominated the gaming world for decades still linger.

  • WAMU in Washington, for example, was “so new and precarious, the pay so low, and the new program so untested that convention and chauvinism didn’t, couldn’t prevail,” Napoli writes.

  • We will give up and stop any manifestations of chauvinism and xenophobia.

  • Let's hope that that the increased presence of women in the new Knesset will help free us from that chauvinism once and for all.

  • But the "Zoabiz" was a small reminder that latent chauvinism is alive and well.

  • I became a feminist in the 1970s because I did not appreciate male chauvinism.

  • But the proper corrective to chauvinism is not to reverse it and practice it against males, but rather basic fairness.

  • They furnished a vivid but rather aggravating explanation for the existing backwardness and chauvinism of the commonwealth.

  • Our one desire was to get back to America, and we regarded Europe with the most ignorant chauvinism and contempt.

  • He never stooped to pietistic clap-trap, or chanted the jaunty chauvinism that has so often caused the Hoosier stars to blink.

  • The old dregs of Chauvinism, stirred by the Bonapartists, discharge their muddy waters.

  • In Japan, opinion ranged from imperialistic chauvinism to liberal recognition of the consortium as a way out of the mess.