as in nationalist
having or showing excessive favoritism towards one's own country
a jingoist speech that just stopped short of calling for a declaration of war
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as in hawk
one who urges or attempts to cause a war
jingoists applauding the appointment of a hard-line foreign minister
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Adjective
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While Trump may be cynically using his Christian nationalist base, leaders of that movement are even more cynically exploiting Trump to attack the secular foundations of the United States.—
Annie Laurie Gaylor,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
27 Jan. 2025 -
Charles' speech was also delivered against the backdrop of an uptick in far-right, nationalist politics in Europe.—
Anna Kaufman,
USA TODAY,
27 Jan. 2025
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But hawks were gliding on air currents, hunting for prey.—
M. R. O’Connor,
The New Yorker,
27 Jan. 2025
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The most dependable is the California Raptor Center, a wildlife hospital with a large collection of outdoor aviaries holding non-releasable birds of prey: Stop in for free time with more than a dozen different hawks and owls.—
Jack Gedney,
The Mercury News,
27 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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The pursuits by the US and China are in part nationalistic and political.—
Jackie Wattles,
CNN,
14 Jan. 2025
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That nationalistic pride and the volume was just amazing.—
Jordan Bianchi,
The Athletic,
20 Aug. 2024
Adjective
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The ceremony marked a turning point in Hollywood’s pivot toward patriotic propaganda, in concert with the Department of War.—
Michael Schulman,
The New Yorker,
22 Jan. 2025
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The bureaucratic sideshows of life-size patriotic cut-outs propped up at the doors in office corridors stand as humanoid warnings.—
Armond White,
National Review,
22 Jan. 2025
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“Jingoist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jingoist. Accessed 3 Feb. 2025.
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