male chauvinist
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7.3
- noun
- /meɪl ˈʃoʊvɪnɪst/
- Offensive
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machista
- He's a male chauvinist.
- male chauvinist pig
- white male chauvinists
Don't guess There were male chauvinist pigs.
- Don't guess There were male chauvinist pigs.
- So she's so she's very much she she described herself once as a male chauvinist.
Examples
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We live in a male chauvinist society where men have all the possible products for themselves.
Blog text (17) -
Does he have a male chauvinist streak that bugs you?
Blog text (29) -
Rand was a self-professed "male chauvinist" who believed women should engage in male hero-worship.
Blog text (5) -
She had mounted an unrelenting attack on the anti-abortionists and had crucified in debate those male chauvinists who, without personal risk, tried to legislate what women might do with their bodies.
Fiction book (1990) -
In a meeting, he often interrupted the women, clearly revealing his male chauvinist attitudes.
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Many people argue that the media perpetuates male chauvinist stereotypes in their portrayals of women.
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Despite his charm, his male chauvinist views were evident in how he spoke about women's roles.
Synonyms
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8.1
A person who dislikes or hates women
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7.9
A person who strongly believes their country, group or gender is better and is unfair to others
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4.2
A person who treats people unfairly because of their sex, often women
A person who thinks men are better and should have more power than women
A person who wrongly believes one gender is better than another
Antonyms
How Sexist
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly derivable from 'male' (man) + 'chauvinist' (a person who believes in their group's superiority): together they straightforwardly denote a man who believes men are superior and behaves that way. This adjectival + noun composition follows regular English compounding and is cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents should understand the MWE.
Etymology
Male chauvinist starts with male (a man) and ends with chauvinist, a word that may come from a French soldier named Chauvin who was famous for being overly proud and thinking his side was best. So a male chauvinist is a man who acts as if men are 'superior to women'.