jingoism
IPA: dʒˈɪŋgoʊɪzʌm
noun
- (uncountable) Excessive patriotism or aggressive nationalism, especially with regards to foreign policy.
- (countable) A jingoistic attitude, comment, etc.
- (uncountable) Chauvinism.
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Examples of "jingoism" in Sentences
- Give the British jingoism a rest.
- Jingoism is a form of war propaganda.
- The jingoism is pandemic in the country.
- However, this level of jingoism is lethal.
- If anything, it is a historical snapshot of jingoism too.
- It other contexts, it is used to mean jingoism or isolationism.
- I talked to you about the Philippines and you brought up jingoism.
- His patriotic sentiments were fervent almost to the point of Jingoism.
- It might, however, be possible to resist the grossest forms of jingoism.
- These people therefore think of all forms of Israeli nationalism as jingoism.
- It's jingoism, which is something none of us should aspire to nor should we celebrate.
- Normally I run a mile from 'jingoism' - one reason I've never been to a Last Night of the Proms except for 2001.
- Your frightened jingoism is especially unappealing when it comes out in support of the burning death of civilians.
- In contrast to this, recall the jingoism of Bush led Administration, US media and people of America on the occasion of 9/11.
- While, as Steve pointed out, patriotism can easily slip into jingoism, that is simply a way for some people to channel their personal idiocies.
- It should not be confused, as it so often is, with jingoism, which is a blind, flag-waving nationalism that refuses to acknowledge any failings whatsoever of our society.
- The word jingoism originated from a music hall ditty of the Boer War: "We don't want to fight", it ran, "but by jingo if we do, we have got the men, we've got the guns, we've got the money too."
- TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - Honduran de facto President Roberto Micheletti met on Friday with a delegation of U.S. lawmakers who have called on the Obama administration to stop supporting the return of ousted The blaze of jingoism is short-lived.
- And it was Disraeli who grasped that 'jingoism' - a potent cocktail of popular patriotism and imperial expansionism - could win new voters among newly enfranchised groups such as artisans, skilled workers and shopkeepers: the Essex Men of the Victorian era.