chauvinist attitude
- noun
- /ˈʃoʊvɪnɪst ˈætɪtjud/
- Offensive
:
actitud machista
- His chauvinist attitude often led him to dismiss the suggestions of his female colleagues.
Examples
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She refused to tolerate his chauvinist attitude any longer and called him out in front of everyone.
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Many criticized the politician's chauvinist attitude during the heated debate on national identity.
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His chauvinist attitude was evident during the meeting.
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Many people criticized her chauvinist attitudes towards women.
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His chauvinist attitude often led him to dismiss the suggestions of his female colleagues.
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She refused to tolerate his chauvinist attitude any longer and called him out in front of everyone.
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Many criticized the politician's chauvinist attitude during the heated debate on national identity.
Synonyms
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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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8.9
Extreme pride in one's country that ignores people from other countries
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7.3
A man who thinks men are better than women and acts that way
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9.5
Very strong pride in your country that supports fighting other countries
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7.2
Feeling that you are better than other people because you think highly of yourself
2
9.9
The idea that one group is better than others and should control them
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6.2
Thinking men are better than women and treating women unfairly
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8.8
Thinking your own culture is better than other cultures
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7.5
A way of thinking that makes you feel better than others and makes you treat them as less important
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6.1
A belief or feeling that people of a different race are worse and should be treated unfairly
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9.8
A belief that your own culture is better and used to judge other cultures
A view or action that treats people unfairly because of their gender
Thinking your own culture is better than other cultures
A person who thinks men are better and should have more power than women
Antonyms
How Chauvinistic
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: an 'attitude' characterized by 'chauvinist' beliefs (belief in one's group's superiority), so the overall sense follows straightforward adjective + noun semantics. This standard compositional pattern — and the presence of cognates in many languages — makes the phrase readily understandable to a B1 learner who already knows both constituent words.
Etymology
The phrase chauvinist attitude comes from a story about a soldier named Chauvin who was so fiercely proud of his country that he acted as if it were the best. So a chauvinist is someone with a proud attitude who thinks their group (often men) is 'better than others'.