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male chauvinist

 noun
     
male chauvinist [countable]
a man who believes that men are better than women and has fixed, traditional ideas about the way men and women should behave - used to show disapproval:
I'm afraid Bill's a bit of a male chauvinist.
male chauvinist pig (=an insulting name for a male chauvinist)
—male chauvinism noun [uncountable]
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