jingoistic

as in nationalistic
having or showing excessive favoritism towards one's own country dismissed the political action committee as a bunch of jingoistic extremists who never met a war they wouldn't support

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Adjective
  • The pursuits by the US and China are in part nationalistic and political.
    Jackie Wattles, CNN, 14 Jan. 2025
  • That nationalistic pride and the volume was just amazing.
    Jordan Bianchi, The Athletic, 20 Aug. 2024
Adjective
  • 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
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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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