'chauvinistic' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It can be used to describe a person displaying an unreasonable, exaggerated patriotism or blind enthusiasm for something. For example: "John's chauvinistic attitude toward his country often gets him into arguments with his friends."
Meanwhile, Japan's growing bilateral trade deficit, a historically unprecedented level of unemployment and perennially low growth are fanning a chauvinistic nationalism.
If public sentiment had to be judged by the outpourings on the country's numerous Internet bulletin boards, it would appear alarmingly chauvinistic and bellicose.
As an amateur and mother in her late 40s, Ms Recart looked the very antithesis of the typical competitor in what is a famously elitist and chauvinistic sport.
"In politics," said another, Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, "sexism is so encrusted in social structures that some men are not even aware of the chauvinistic nature of their reactions".Libération, a left-leaning newspaper, ran a headline "Enough of Machos .The post-DSK outbreak of zero tolerance may embolden victims to expose more egregious behaviour.
Yet it is surely chauvinistic to identify the West with America and Britain alone, and partisan to attribute its slow triumph to one favoured thread of an ever complicated politics.
That effort ended in a chauvinistic wrangle with the LSE's owners.
But the main outcome is already fairly clear: diehard Bosnian Serb nationalists, who support either Radovan Karadzic or a group that is even more chauvinistic than his, have almost certainly failed to win a majority in the Bosnian Serb parliament.
The equally chauvinistic interior minister, Eli Yishai, who heads an ultra-Orthodox party, Shas, grants building permits for religious Jews.
What has caused this rush of conscience in one of the world's more male-chauvinistic parts?Not, alas, the rape itself, which was unextraordinary.
Its leader, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, opposed almost everything that Yeltsin stood for, and in the weeks following the elections, he managed to offend and alarm many people in Russia and abroad with his Russian-chauvinistic declarations.
From the human-chauvinistic (or absolutely anthropocentric) perspective, the last person would do nothing morally wrong, since his or her destructive act in question would not cause any damage to the interest and well-being of humans, who would by then have disappeared.
