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jingoist

/jing-goh-is-tik/US // ˌdʒɪŋ goʊˈɪs tɪk //

金刚主义者,金戈铁马,金戈铁马者,金刚主义者

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : militantly nationalistic or chauvinistic:To be against the war in that jingoistic era was considered tantamount to treason.

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Examples

  • Say “freedom,” and you simultaneously evoke jingoistic policies and legacies of resistance, jarring opportunism and escapist tranquility, defiance and ease, protection and condescension, potential and burden.

  • While we don’t watch the Olympics with a particularly jingoistic mindset, that American edge with female athletes was important because doping penalties did not slow Russia — excuse us, the ROC — down at all.

  • Mary Lou Retton’s all-around gold in 1984 at the jingoistic boycotted Games was portrayed as a triumph of capitalism over Communism.

  • In the fevered race for power and supremacy, concerns about ethics and sustainability are drowned out by jingoistic cheers.

  • The voice, the jingoistic voice, bordering on fascist voice, is what is so very loud now.

  • Paradoxically, democratic reforms have fed the jingoistic chorus.

  • Nor was she jingoistic, concluding: “It was very sad that we had to do it, but we really had no choice.”

  • I mean the people who actually saw the war through a conservative—as opposed to jingoistic and imperialistic—lens.

  • The press is almost universally jingoistic, because it is financially interested in sensationalism.

  • He knew the game well, and was able to inspire a keenness that was not jingoistic.