Meaning & use
Chauvinists
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People who show excessive, biased loyalty or superiority for their own group, cause, or gender, often at the expense of others.
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The novel satirizes chauvinists who assume their own nation is superior to all others.
She refused to work with colleagues who acted like chauvinists toward female staff.
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Named after Nicolas Chauvin, a possibly legendary French soldier famed for his fanatical devotion to Napoleon; the word later broadened to include 'male chauvinist', referring to sexist attitudes.
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