CHAUVINIST – prejudiced support of your own cause, group or sex
(Pronounced shoh-vuh-nist)
REMEMBER MEANING OF CHAUVINIST
A chauvinist is a person who demonstrates excessive or prejudiced support for their own cause, group, or sex; a man who believes women are inferior.
To remember the definition of the word chauvinist, use the following mnemonic:
She showed the van a fist (chauvinist) because the driver believed that women are inferior.
Examples of chauvinist in a sentence
Despite the chauvinism of the male footballers, Jess went on to become a successful footballer.
Her husband's such a chauvinist that he tries to tell her how to think and act.
She was so angry at his sexist remarks that she called him a male chauvinist pig.
