jingo
IPA: dʒˈɪŋgoʊ
noun
- One who supports policy favouring war.
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Examples of "jingo" in Sentences
- MR: Well they've got the lingo jingo, they've got people like Luntz.
- A jingo is a war hawk, somebody who is very strong for war or for imperial control.
- In his recent annual address to the clergy the Bish. lamented bitterly that the American "jingo" was provoking dear patient Christian England to put on her war-paint.
- If rational arguments are available for increasing the aggression on the net taxpayer via immigration; why would ad hominem smear terms, such as jingo and chauvinist appear?
- You will remember that in 1846 the war with Mexico was just beginning, and many people were opposed to it as the work of "jingo" politicians, controlled in some degree by the slavery power.
- It was the SRC's attempts to eliminate the Afrikaans character of the university and its championing the ANC which gave the university a "jingo" image among right-thinking Afrikaners, he said.
- The phrase "fleet in being," having within recent years gained much currency in naval writing, demands -- like the word "jingo" -- preciseness of definition; and this, in general acceptance, it has not yet attained.
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