From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishchauvinistchau‧vin‧ist /ˈʃəʊvɪnɪst $ ˈʃoʊ-/ noun [countable] 1 PREJUDICEDsomeone, especially a man, who believes that their own sex is better or more important than the other sex He’s a bit of a male chauvinist. a male chauvinist pig (=an insulting name for a male chauvinist)2 PREJUDICEDsomeone who believes that their own country or race is better or more important than any other —chauvinist adjective
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chauvinist• Anyone who says that is a chauvinist.• A female chauvinist approach might be to describe men as a kind of afterthought in the scheme of existence.• In a nation of committed male chauvinists, all this excitement may stimulate a desire to pinch a schoolgirl's bottom.• A self-confessed male chauvinist, he had no idea how to look after himself after his wife died.• It's just that male chauvinists were called sons of empire then.• Religious chauvinists have been the main cause of trouble in the province.• Beneath its denunciation of war and its apparent modernity there is the chauvinist roar of good and evil.• A motley crew for the most part, with the reputation of being beer-swilling, womanising chauvinists.male chauvinist• Who said his age excused him from being a male chauvinist?• In a nation of committed male chauvinists, all this excitement may stimulate a desire to pinch a schoolgirl's bottom.• The producer was Av Westin, who is a staunch male chauvinist, but there was absolutely no hesitation, no objection.• It's just that male chauvinists were called sons of empire then.• No wonder male chauvinists want to reclaim the sole right to do so. 