• Jingoistic

    Origin

    jingo + -istic

    Full definition of jingoistic

    Adjective

    jingoistic

    1. Overly patriotic or nationalistic.My editorial angered both the jingoistic war hawks and the anti-war protesters.
      • 1915, Joseph McCabe, ,The truth is that all classes—Christian and non-Christian—have yielded fatally to the pernicious interpretation which interested politicians, soldiers, manufacturers, and Jingoistic writers have put on the real economic needs of the country.
      • 1921, 1919, H. L. Mencken, , 2nd Edition,All this jingoistic bombast, however, was directed toward defending, not so much the national vernacular as the national belles lettres.
      • 1980, Robert A. Freitas, Jr., William P. Gilbreath (editors), , final report of the 1980 NASA/ASEE Summer Study,If we continue to be limited to our exceedingly fragile existence on spaceship Earth, a natural disaster or our own jingoistic or ecological foolhardiness is almost certain to terminate our existence perhaps centuries or millennia from today.
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