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jingoistic

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jin·go·ism  (jngg-zm)
n.
Extreme nationalism characterized especially by a belligerent foreign policy; chauvinistic patriotism.

jingo·ist n.
jingo·istic adj.
jingo·isti·cal·ly adv.
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Adj.1.jingoisticjingoistic - fanatically patriotic
patriotic, loyal - inspired by love for your country

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According to the jingoistic Jerusalem Post, the Israeli Prime Minister's Office and the army are delirious at their success in dictating the headlines and tone of foreign news broadcasts.
If her patriotism runs deeper than a jingoistic sense of ethnic superiority, it is fueled by her activist sense of public service, for which she finds inspiration in the words of Theodore Roosevelt: "To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.
The first one is subsumed in a jingoistic war on terrorism, while the second is nurtured by an enervating domestic miasma of crass, and often vulgar, hip-hop consumerism.
 
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