(n.) A statesman who pursues, or who favors, aggressive, domineering policy in foreign affairs.
Example Sentences:
(1) Here comes the Algerian tune - and, by jingo, there seems to be lots of them in Pretoria too.
(2) On the BBC, Jingo Boy and Mark Lawrenson are debating whether a slightly sheepish looking Jorge Larrionda is trying to level things up as best he could.
(3) On BBC TV, Jingo the Commentator is trotting out that "we know these players are world class, they play for Chelsea and Manchester United and the like every week" argument.
Jingoism
Definition:
(n.) The policy of the Jingoes, so called. See Jingo, 2.
Example Sentences:
(1) When asked why the streets of London were not heaving with demonstrators protesting against Russia turning Aleppo into the Guernica of our times, Stop the War replied that it had no wish to add to the “jingoism” politicians were whipping up against plucky little Russia .
(2) Ministers have promised there will be no "jingoism", but Cameron says he wants to remember those who "gave their lives for our freedom" and ensure that "the lessons learned live with us for ever".
(3) Unthinking support for the US was the mirror image of virulent Euroscepticism: initial jingoism morphed into silence as the Afghan campaign went wrong.
(4) Labor supported Australia’s contribution to the mission in Iraq, he said, not as “a matter of jingoism or nationalism” but based on “a calculation of conscience and national interest”.
(5) What I did say, in an article in the Guardian on 13 July 2013 , was that the broad and inclusive plans of Maria Miller, the culture secretary, for the commemoration of the centenary of the outbreak of the first world war have been "in strong contrast to the narrow, tub-thumping jingoism of Gove" in his redrafting of the national schools history curriculum to force schools to teach an uncritically celebratory narrative of English history.
(6) Both men remembered events slightly to their own advantage, but the bigger cause for the discrepancy is jingoism.
(7) There is more Britishness in self-deprecation than in jingoism, more national identity in embarrassment than in brash self-assertion.
(8) Growing up in New York with artist parents – a very liberal environment, where we were always encouraged to challenge the status quo – I think for a long time I confused jingoism with patriotism.
(9) Quite the opposite, in fact, as the former Smiths singer has sent an open letter to members of his fanclub attacking the "blustering jingoism" of the Olympic Games .
(10) This as we enter 2017, the 200th anniversary of the birth of George Holyoake , the man who coined the word “jingoism”.
(11) This jingoism from Mr Howard, that he wants to put on the battle-dress, is grotesque and ridiculous.
(12) The full text of the letter to members of his True to You fanclub reads: "I am unable to watch the Olympics due to the blustering jingoism that drenches the event.
(13) According to Gove, I have demeaned the memory of the British soldiers who fought in the first world war and "attacked the very idea of honouring their sacrifice as an exercise in 'narrow tub-thumping jingoism'".
(14) Indeed, it’s deputy chair, Chris Nineham, told the Today programme that his organisation would not be organising or joining any protests outside the Russian embassy because that would merely fuel the “hysteria and the jingoism” currently being whipped up against Moscow.
(15) Morrissey was as adrift in his comments about "blustering jingoism" as the MP Burley has been about multiculturalism in the opening ceremony.
(16) Jingoism's Guy Mowbray, on the BBC, is arguing that the laughable decision not to award Lampard's goal was more wrong than the one which allowed Hurst's goal all those years ago.
(17) Yet already the "secretary of state who should know better", Michael Gove, has seized the moment for tub-thumping jingoism against his political foes.
(18) Theresa May would go to war to protect Gibraltar, Michael Howard says Read more “I’m sorry, this is 2017-18, it’s not 1851 [...] The idea of Spain going to war against Britain over Gibraltar is frankly absurd, and reeks of 19th-century jingoism,” he told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.
(19) If nationalism is supposed to come first, whatever the facts suggest, then you are in the jingoism business, or the propaganda business, not the news business.
(20) Everything was underpinned not by a raucous jingoism but by a determined pride in what our country now is and to show that we can be the best, a patriotism that allows us to be open to the cream of the world but also to use it for our own purposes.