jingoistic

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
20
Words With Friends
25
Letters
10
Pronunciation
/ˌd͡ʒɪŋ.ɡəʊˈɪst.ɪk/
See all 2 pronunciations
/ˌd͡ʒɪŋ.ɡəʊˈɪst.ɪk/ · /ˌd͡ʒɪŋ.ɡoʊˈɪst.ɪk/

Definition of jingoistic

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Overly patriotic or nationalistic, often with an element of favouring war or an aggressive foreign policy.
    “My editorial angered both the jingoistic war hawks and the anti-war protesters.”
    “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.”
    “All this jingoistic bombast, however, was directed toward defending, not so much the national vernacular as the national belles lettres.”
    “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 millenia^([sic – meaning millennia]) from today.”
    “But are these Olympics also destined to become a jingoistic, flag-waving convention, a world-alienating Patriot Games?”

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Etymology

From jingo + -istic.

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