jingoism

IPA: dʒˈɪŋgoʊɪzʌm

(uncountable) Excessive patriotism or aggressive nationalism, especially with regards to foreign policy.
(countable) A jingoistic attitude, comment, etc.
(uncountable) Chauvinism.

Examples of "jingoism" in Sentences

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.