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jingoistic

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of jingoistic

  1. having or showing excessive favoritism towards one's own country dismissed the political action committee as a bunch of jingoistic extremists who never met a war they wouldn't support Synonyms chauvinist, chauvinistic, jingoist, nationalist, nationalistic, superpatrioticRelated Words spread-eagle; loyal, patriotic; antiforeign, anti-immigrant, nativist, nativistic, xenophobicNear Antonyms internationalist

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