chauvinismin a sentence
- surprised by the male chauvinism in their household
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Mom considered Barbies weapons of chauvinism,
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chauvinism = unreasonable belief in the superiority of one's gender
- Appointing him pleases a large number of Russian-haters and chauvinists.† (source)
- But at heart he's a southern chauvinist, very much a son of the region.† (source)
- He is such a chauvinist"he has girlfriends stay over at Miragnac every summer, sometimes a new one every two weeks!"† (source)
- Chauvinist pig, she'd say.† (source)
- Chacko told Rahel and Estha that Ammu had no Locusts Stand I. "Thanks to our wonderful male chauvinist society," Ammu said.† (source)
- They don't get what it was like when your old man was eating your children and you couldn't get a real job and the Titan chauvinists just wanted you to stay home and cook and clean and have more Olympian babies.† (source)
- She re-entered the kitchen, Eric staring malevolently at her straight, chauvinistic back.† (source)
- Amina Wadud, an Islamic scholar in the United States, has written a systematic reinterpretation of chauvinist provisions in the Koran.† (source)
- She resented the chauvinism of Indians who could only admire things foreign.† (source)
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- He's just an arrogant, self-centered, chauvinistic— "Telephone!" says Mum.† (source)
- ...said I gave her a raw deal, I was the villain because I overexpected, I was a narrow-minded, arrogant chauvinist—her exact words—Christ, I ask you, is it chauvinistic to expect six hours of work out of somebody, when you're paying for eight—† (source)
- This is an outrageous example of unconscious racial chauvinism!† (source)
- I was prepared to use whatever means to speed up the erasure of human prejudice and the end of chauvinistic and violent nationalism.† (source)
- I didn't want to be accused of being a chauvinist, but if you don't tell me what you want, I'm just going to have to guess.† (source)
- And just when the sensitive subway guard's problems are getting the best of him, destroying his faith in Mankind and the Little People, his nine-year-old niece comes home from school and gives him some nice, pat chauvinistic philosophy handed down to us through posterity and P.S. 564 all the way from Andrew Jackson's backwoods wife.† (source)
- dog-whistle appeals to Confederate chauvinism
- "Into a Male Chauvinist Pig," Rahel said.† (source)
- In the South, among extreme chauvinists, you sometimes find a strange affinity for Nazi regalia.† (source)
- And for years after that, a chauvinist of the more amiable sort.† (source)
- She'd been assaulted by chauvinist ghosts.† (source)
- It wasn't just male chauvinists who were upset; women villagers were also more dissatisfied.† (source)
- She said it was entirely possible, for instance, that Estha could grow up to be a Male Chauvinist Pig.† (source)
- ...said I gave her a raw deal, I was the villain because I overexpected, I was a narrow-minded, arrogant chauvinist—her exact words—Christ, I ask you, is it chauvinistic to expect six hours of work out of somebody, when you're paying for eight—† (source)
- Muhammad himself was progressive on gender issues, but some early successors, such as the Caliph Omar, were unmitigated chauvinists.† (source)
- Yet somehow from this infertile, chauvinistic soil has emerged a country in which women now play an important economic, political, and social role—in a way that hugely benefits Rwanda as a whole.† (source)
- —Essay on psychology in POLITICS (New York) (4) All the "best people" from the gentlemen's clubs, and all the frantic fascist captains, united in common hatred of Socialism and bestial horror of the rising tide of the mass revolutionary movement, have turned to acts of provocation, to foul incendiarism, to medieval legends of poisoned wells, to legalize their own destruction of proletarian organizations, and rouse the agitated petty-bourgeoisie to chauvinistic fervor on behalf of the fight against the revolutionary way out of the crisis.† (source)
- Two or three people clapped their hands at the mention of chauvinism and mysticism.† (source)
- And if she found it amusing that the nonplussed visitor should not have known, beforehand, that we had our luncheon an hour earlier on Saturday, it was still more irresistibly funny that my father himself (fully as she sympathised, from the bottom of her heart, with the rigid chauvinism which prompted him) should never have dreamed that the barbarian could fail to be aware of so simple a matter, and so had replied, with no further enlightenment of the other's surprise at seeing us already in the dining-room: "You see, it's Saturday."† (source)
- For my part I wish the excellent and gifted young man every success; I trust that his youthful idealism and impulse towards the ideas of the people may never degenerate, as often happens, on the moral side into gloomy mysticism, and on the political into blind chauvinism—two elements which are even a greater menace to Russia than the premature decay, due to misunderstanding and gratuitous adoption of European ideas, from which his elder brother is suffering.† (source)
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