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- noun Plural form of
jingoism .
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Examples
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He correctly notes that CFR members have greater access to and understanding of the situation in the Middle East and are less influenced by media jingoisms and propaganda.
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As usual, the media and the news-consuming public have distilled a very complex and intriguing story down to a collection of sound bites and jingoisms.
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The choice Bush offers for Iraqis is not freedom, democracy, or any of the other jingoisms he uses in his speeches to justify his barbaristic power grab.
Defense of New Iraqi Military to Lead Off Bush's New Propaganda Tour 2006
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I don't know that this will change any minds, but it does cut through those jingoisms and rhetoric we've heard bantered around for so long.
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When it comes to the abortion debate, there is plenty of rhetoric and jingoisms to be found on both sides of the argument.
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Their virulent acrimony toward McCain is so intense that you couldn't post a thread or talk about McCains positions in an adult manner on FR without them descending on it like a plague of locusts, chanting their relevant but worn out jingoisms, attacking anyone with the temerity to desire a review of McCains + / - positions and poisoning any budding, rational discussion.
Latest Articles 2009
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It is high time that everyone put aside regional jingoisms and unite as one spirit.
unknown title 2008
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Because media slobbers to print jingoisms, an indigenous person on his own land, protecting his own family from Western / corporate takeover of the natural resources under his foot is called
Latest Articles 2008
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I don't know about all of you but Palin's speech was useless ... and many of her remarks troubled me and seemed just a series of pasted together one-liners and throw away jingoisms.
Rising Hegemon 2008
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As a result of our former President's being delusional enough to proudly tell us out loud that he had a direct line to Jesus, and peppering his speeches with religious extremist jingoisms, isn't the US the country where, for eight interminable years, extreme fundamentalist religious groups gained a Karl Rovian foot-hold on the Republican Party in an attempt to push our government and anyone among us who didn't fit their mold ( "Love the sinner; hate the sin!") back to a more Puritanically-influenced world of America's past.
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