CHAUVINISM


Meaning of CHAUVINISM in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

male

He got a little tired of her complaints that male chauvinism had stopped her getting a book out.

We doubt if any of the men on translation committees or who did their own translations are conscious of any male chauvinism .

But to ascribe this to male chauvinism wouldn't be accurate either.

Marriage experts have slammed Laura's ideas as offensive and pandering to male chauvinism .

Hence also the exaggerated tribalism, the bullheaded racism of an Alf Garnett, the dogged male chauvinism of an Andy Capp.

He's had a lifelong fight with feminists who accuse him of extreme male chauvinism and damaging their dignity.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

The academy was labeled a stronghold of male chauvinism .

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Bandaranaike used Sinhalese chauvinism to gain power, but found he could not control it.

But to ascribe this to male chauvinism wouldn't be accurate either.

For the less sophisticated, it was chauvinism .

He got a little tired of her complaints that male chauvinism had stopped her getting a book out.

Perhaps it is because of a hearty dislike of chauvinism and exaggerated nationalism that I have not become an intense patriot.

The absence of media chauvinism is testimony, Morris Matthews believes, to the women's communication skills.

They regard a last-minute request to spend the weekend collating figures in Darlington as proof positive of their triumph against chauvinism .

This sense is often identified with nationalism and patriotism which can be dangerously close to racism, chauvinism and xenophobia.

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