jingoistic

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In this jingoistic arena, the slightest mistake or hint of failure brings howling derision from the crowd, communicating to the team a lurid preview of next morning's headlines.

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  1. fanatically and bellicosely patriotic; aggressively chauvinistic; belligerent in international relations.

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  1. fanatically patriotic

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  • She was without snobbery or pretension, and she was half of the parental influence on my brother and me as we traveled in a Navy family whose head was an apolitical, totally non-jingoistic gentle Cold War warrior. —  Magazine - Aeon Authors - 2006 - Issue 07 - Aeon Seven
  • These weren't assassination attempts, but full on coup attempts inside a nationalistic, hyper-jingoistic regime. —  FatMixx
  • Obviously I don't take part in jingoistic, populism often, but this just strikes me as just plain unamerican. —  Donklephant
  • Instead of praise, he was slammed by critics, who said that kind of jingoistic pride is dangerous. —  PRI's The World
  • One irony of the ivy tower set's banishing of military historians is that without their support military history will tend to be crowd pleasing and jingoistic, rather than peer reviewed and rigorous. —  Phi Beta Cons
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