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chauvinist

 noun
     
chau‧vin‧ist [countable]
1 someone, especially a man, who believes that their own sex is better or more important than the other sex:
He's a bit of a male chauvinist.
a male chauvinist pig (=an insulting name for a male chauvinist)
2 someone who believes that their own country or race is better or more important than any other
—chauvinist adjective
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