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  • noun Plural form of jingo.

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Examples

  • They would have stayed in their offices, and let other men (whom they called "jingoes") do the fighting for them.

    Theodore Roosevelt Edmund Lester Pearson 1908

  • We've been talking about the law and prosecutors with you jingoes.

    CNN Transcript Mar 9, 2008 2008

  • Only the crazy jingoes believe that their Apocalypse is an idea whose time has come.

    Think Progress » Bush Administration Developing Plans To Keep 50,000 U.S. Troops In Iraq For Decades 2006

  • As the world prospered behind their backs, this insular strain of American metastasized into swaggering jingoes full of Cold War machismo, content to wave the flag and "Go for the gold."

    Mike Farrell: The Ugly America 2008

  • Only the jingoes think they can do whatever they like because ‘they’ have nukes and the largest military in the world.

    Think Progress » Bush Administration Developing Plans To Keep 50,000 U.S. Troops In Iraq For Decades 2006

  • Left-wingers, rather than jingoes, should be the ones least willing to forgive "Hanoi Jane"; although her characteristically vainglorious, self-dramatizing decision to publicly oppose the war was the most morally justified one of her life, her judgment of how to put it into practice was disastrous.

    Calamity Jane 2005

  • Left-wingers, rather than jingoes, should be the ones least willing to forgive "Hanoi Jane"; although her characteristically vainglorious, self-dramatizing decision to publicly oppose the war was the most morally justified one of her life, her judgment of how to put it into practice was disastrous.

    Calamity Jane 2005

  • As one who has taught college students for the past 41 years, the only task worthy of a teacher is that of teaching our kids how to think for themselves, critical thinking skills that might perhaps enable them to counter the outrageous mendacity of those in power, chauvinistic jingoes who would, through the use of propaganda, have our children believe a lie rather than that which is true.

    Why I am Ashamed to be an American 2007

  • The jingoes exulted. gotcha! screamed the New York Post, showing a blowup of Zarqawi's face, bruised and puffy (the tabloid couldn't resist a cartoon bubble from the dead terrorist's mouth uttering the command "Warm up the virgins").

    Death of a Terrorist 2007

  • Granted, the right has been right snappy with their jingoes.

    Talking Right: A Guide to Neo-Con Doubletalk in Double Time 2006

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