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chauvinism

  • 1 chauvinismo

    • chauvinism
    • fanatical patriotism

    Diccionario Técnico Español-Inglés > chauvinismo

  • 2 chovinismo

    • chauvinism
    • flag station
    • flag-waving
    • flagellant

    Diccionario Técnico Español-Inglés > chovinismo

  • 3 patriotería

    • chauvinism
    • excessive patriotism
    • fanatical patriotism
    • flag station
    • flag-waving
    • flagellant

    Diccionario Técnico Español-Inglés > patriotería

  • 4 patrioterismo

    • chauvinism
    • flag station
    • flag-waving
    • flagellant

    Diccionario Técnico Español-Inglés > patrioterismo

  • 5 patriotismo excesivo

    • chauvinism
    • excessive patriotism
    • fanatical patriotism

    Diccionario Técnico Español-Inglés > patriotismo excesivo

  • 6 patriotismo fanático

    • chauvinism
    • excessive patriotism
    • fanatical patriotism

    Diccionario Técnico Español-Inglés > patriotismo fanático

  • 7 chovinismo

    m.
    chauvinism.
    * * *
    1 excessive patriotism, chauvinism
    * * *
    masculino chauvinism
    * * *
    Ex. And what I'm trying to suggest is that there's something shameful about a profession that has allowed this kind of blatant and rank ethnocentrism, racism, chauvinism, the whole schmier, to persist this long.
    * * *
    masculino chauvinism
    * * *

    Ex: And what I'm trying to suggest is that there's something shameful about a profession that has allowed this kind of blatant and rank ethnocentrism, racism, chauvinism, the whole schmier, to persist this long.

    * * *
    chauvinism
    * * *

    chovinismo sustantivo masculino
    chauvinism
    chovinismo sustantivo masculino chauvinism
    ' chovinismo' also found in these entries:
    English:
    chauvinism
    * * *
    chauvinism
    * * *
    m chauvinism
    * * *

    Spanish-English dictionary > chovinismo

  • 8 machismo

    m.
    male chauvinism, machismo.
    * * *
    1 male chauvinism
    * * *
    SM
    1) pey male chauvinism, machismo
    2) [de hombre] (=orgullo) male pride, maleness; (=virilidad) virility, masculinity
    * * *
    a) (actitud, ideología) sexism, male chauvinism
    b) ( cualidad) masculinity, virility
    •• Cultural note:
    A concept deeply rooted in the Spanish-speaking world. It has its origin in a sense of honor, felt to depend on a man's own actions and those of his close family, particularly its female members. Machismo is present in the home, where even working women usually do most of the housework, and extends to the workplace. It can affect the legal status of women. In Spain legal reforms since the 1970s have contributed to undermining machismo
    * * *
    a) (actitud, ideología) sexism, male chauvinism
    b) ( cualidad) masculinity, virility
    •• Cultural note:
    A concept deeply rooted in the Spanish-speaking world. It has its origin in a sense of honor, felt to depend on a man's own actions and those of his close family, particularly its female members. Machismo is present in the home, where even working women usually do most of the housework, and extends to the workplace. It can affect the legal status of women. In Spain legal reforms since the 1970s have contributed to undermining machismo
    * * *
    machismo (↑ machismo a1)
    1 (actitud, ideología) sexism, male chauvinism
    2 (cualidad) masculinity, virility
    A concept deeply rooted in the Spanish-speaking world. It has its origin in a sense of honor, felt to depend on a man's own actions and those of his close family, particularly its female members.
    Machismo is present in the home, where even working women usually do most of the housework, and extends to the workplace. It can affect the legal status of women. In Spain legal reforms since the 1970s have contributed to undermining machismo.
    * * *

    machismo sustantivo masculino (actitud, ideología) sexism, male chauvinism
    machismo sustantivo masculino male chauvinism
    ' machismo' also found in these entries:
    English:
    chauvinism
    * * *
    male chauvinism, machismo
    * * *
    m male chauvinism, machismo
    * * *
    1) : machismo
    2) : male chauvinism

    Spanish-English dictionary > machismo

  • 9 chauvinismo

    m.
    chauvinism.
    * * *
    1 chauvinism
    * * *
    * * *
    [tʃoβi'nismo]
    masculino chauvinism
    * * *
    [tʃoβi'nismo]
    masculino chauvinism
    * * *
    /tʃoβiˈnismo/
    chauvinism
    * * *

    chauvinismo /tʃoBi'nismo/ sustantivo masculino
    chauvinism
    * * *
    chauvinismo [tʃo£i'nismo] nm
    chauvinism
    * * *
    : chauvinism

    Spanish-English dictionary > chauvinismo

  • 10 patriotería

    f.
    fanatical patriotism, chauvinism, excessive patriotism, flag-waving.
    * * *
    1 jingoism
    * * *
    femenino jingoism, chauvinism
    * * *
    Ex. Librarians should ensure that the principles they stand for are not swept away on a tide of technological jingoism.
    * * *
    femenino jingoism, chauvinism
    * * *

    Ex: Librarians should ensure that the principles they stand for are not swept away on a tide of technological jingoism.

    * * *
    jingoism, chauvinism, flag-waving
    * * *
    Pey jingoism, chauvinism
    * * *
    f jingoism, chauvinism
    * * *
    : jingoism, chauvinism

    Spanish-English dictionary > patriotería

  • 11 atacante

    adj.
    attacking.
    f. & m.
    1 attacker.
    2 aggressor, assaulter.
    3 striker.
    m.
    forward (sport).
    * * *
    1 attacking, assailing
    1 attacker, assailant
    * * *
    noun mf.
    assailant, attacker
    * * *
    SMF attacker, assailant
    * * *
    I
    adjetivo (Chi, Ur fam) infuriating
    II
    masculino y femenino attacker, assailant (frml)
    * * *
    I
    adjetivo (Chi, Ur fam) infuriating
    II
    masculino y femenino attacker, assailant (frml)
    * * *
    (Chi, Ur fam) infuriating, maddening
    su machismo me resulta atacante his male chauvinism really gets on my nerves ( colloq), I find his male chauvinism maddening o infuriating
    attacker, assailant ( frml)
    * * *

    atacante sustantivo masculino y femenino
    attacker, assailant (frml)
    atacante mf attacker, assailant
    ' atacante' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    asaltante
    - frente
    English:
    puss
    - pussy
    * * *
    adj
    1. [que agrede] attacking
    2. Dep [equipo, jugador] attacking
    nmf
    1. [agresor] attacker
    2. Dep forward
    * * *
    m/f
    1 attacker, assailant
    2 DEP forward
    * * *
    : assailant, attacker

    Spanish-English dictionary > atacante

  • 12 falocracia

    f.
    male chauvinism.
    * * *
    1 male chauvinism
    * * *
    phallocracy
    * * *
    male chauvinism
    * * *
    f male chauvinism

    Spanish-English dictionary > falocracia

  • 13 con pesimismo

    (adj.) = pessimistically, gloomily
    Ex. Becker concludes, pessimistically, that the library has 'no role to play in solving the problem of how non-college youth are to achieve maturity'.
    Ex. He began by gloomily reflecting that 'the only version of national pride encouraged by American popular culture is a smipleminded militaristic chauvinism'.
    * * *
    (adj.) = pessimistically, gloomily

    Ex: Becker concludes, pessimistically, that the library has 'no role to play in solving the problem of how non-college youth are to achieve maturity'.

    Ex: He began by gloomily reflecting that 'the only version of national pride encouraged by American popular culture is a smipleminded militaristic chauvinism'.

    Spanish-English dictionary > con pesimismo

  • 14 contradictorio

    adj.
    1 contradictory, contrary, contradictive, conflicting.
    2 contradictive, paradoxical, antinomic, antinomical.
    * * *
    1 contradictory
    * * *
    (f. - contradictoria)
    adj.
    * * *
    * * *
    - ria adjetivo contradictory
    * * *
    = conflicting, contradictory, contradicting, adversarial.
    Ex. As is the way with these things there were two conflicting criticisms levelled at the joint code.
    Ex. While this may sound like a contradictory and reactionary sort of chauvinism coming from an iconoclast, our people have got to come first.
    Ex. Again, the existence of contradicting policies simply dissipates the desired effect.
    Ex. The relationship between the author and editor is based on collaboration, but can also be adversarial at certain points.
    ----
    * contradictorio (con) = in conflict (with).
    * parecer contradictorio = appear + contradictory.
    * ser contradictorio de = run + contrary to.
    * * *
    - ria adjetivo contradictory
    * * *
    contradictorio (con)

    Ex: In this case all the works of a given author will be assembled on the shelf under his/her name as well, so it is not really in conflict and I think there is a misinterpretation.

    = conflicting, contradictory, contradicting, adversarial.

    Ex: As is the way with these things there were two conflicting criticisms levelled at the joint code.

    Ex: While this may sound like a contradictory and reactionary sort of chauvinism coming from an iconoclast, our people have got to come first.
    Ex: Again, the existence of contradicting policies simply dissipates the desired effect.
    Ex: The relationship between the author and editor is based on collaboration, but can also be adversarial at certain points.
    * contradictorio (con) = in conflict (with).
    * parecer contradictorio = appear + contradictory.
    * ser contradictorio de = run + contrary to.

    * * *
    ‹declaraciones/versiones› contradictory, conflicting; ‹persona› contradictory
    * * *

    contradictorio
    ◊ - ria adjetivo

    contradictory
    contradictorio,-a adjetivo contradictory

    ' contradictorio' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    contradictoria
    English:
    conflicting
    - contradictory
    - inconsistent
    - mixed
    * * *
    contradictorio, -a adj
    contradictory;
    ser contradictorio con algo to contradict sth, to be in contradiction with sth
    * * *
    adj contradictory
    * * *
    : contradictory

    Spanish-English dictionary > contradictorio

  • 15 de modo pesimista

    (adj.) = gloomily
    Ex. He began by gloomily reflecting that 'the only version of national pride encouraged by American popular culture is a smipleminded militaristic chauvinism'.
    * * *
    (adj.) = gloomily

    Ex: He began by gloomily reflecting that 'the only version of national pride encouraged by American popular culture is a smipleminded militaristic chauvinism'.

    Spanish-English dictionary > de modo pesimista

  • 16 descarado

    adj.
    cynical, bare-faced, barefaced, bold-faced.
    f. & m.
    cheeky person.
    past part.
    past participle of spanish verb: descararse.
    * * *
    1 (actitud) shameless, brazen, insolent; (persona) cheeky
    2 (patente) blatant
    nombre masculino,nombre femenino
    1 shameless person, cheeky person
    * * *
    1. ADJ
    1) [persona] (=desvergonzado) shameless; (=insolente) cheeky, sassy (EEUU)
    2) (=evidente) [mentira] barefaced; [prejuicio] blatant
    2.
    ADV *

    sí voy, descarado — I'm going all right, you bet I'm going

    si supiera inglés, descarado que me iba a Londres — if I spoke English, you can bet your life I'd go to London

    * * *
    I
    - da adjetivo <persona/actitud> brazen, shameless
    II
    - da masculino, femenino

    no contestes así a tu madre descarado! — don't talk back to your mother like that, you rude little boy

    * * *
    = blatant, cheeky [cheekier -comp., cheekiest -sup.], brazen, shameless, sassy [sassier -comp., sassiest -sup.], in-your-face, unabashed, brash [brasher -comp., brashest -sup.], insolent, rude [ruder -comp., rudest -sup.], impudent, unashamed, saucy [saucier -comp., sauciest -sup.], pert.
    Ex. And what I'm trying to suggest is that there's something shameful about a profession that has allowed this kind of blatant and rank ethnocentrism, racism, chauvinism, the whole schmier, to persist this long.
    Ex. The young man in the picture is myself snapped twenty-five years or so ago by a cheeky thirteen-year-old during the first few months of my first teaching job.
    Ex. They accepted the government's brazen lies stating that Ramón Colás, the co-founder of the library movement, has not been arrested as a prisoner of conscience.
    Ex. Another librarian described herself as 'a shameless, self-promoter'.
    Ex. This series of personal essays are at various times sassy, profound, superficial, and maddening.
    Ex. Some female readers also appreciate bad-girl books for their powerful, independent heroines, and in-your-face attitude.
    Ex. The article is entitled 'What's the number?: an unofficial and unabashed guide to the Library of Congress Classification for the social sciences'.
    Ex. Caslon rejected the brash contrast of the later Dutch founts, and produced types that were without serious blemish, but also without much life.
    Ex. He had always anathematized those who took unscrupulous advantage of their positions, and those who succumbed to their insolent methods.
    Ex. 'That young man was terribly rude'.
    Ex. The Library Association is impudent in suggesting that it will impose sanctions on those who fail to keep abreast of developments in librarianship.
    Ex. There is a need for more study of current lending patterns to establish a clear mandate for unashamed purchase of AV materials by traditionally print-oriented librarians.
    Ex. Singers and other entertainers in Burma have been warned to cut out saucy behaviour and be neat and tidy or face the consequences.
    Ex. He lingered round the bookstall looking at the books and papers till a pert girl behind the counter asked him if he wouldn't like a chair.
    ----
    * mentira descarada = blatant lie, bare-faced lie.
    * * *
    I
    - da adjetivo <persona/actitud> brazen, shameless
    II
    - da masculino, femenino

    no contestes así a tu madre descarado! — don't talk back to your mother like that, you rude little boy

    * * *
    = blatant, cheeky [cheekier -comp., cheekiest -sup.], brazen, shameless, sassy [sassier -comp., sassiest -sup.], in-your-face, unabashed, brash [brasher -comp., brashest -sup.], insolent, rude [ruder -comp., rudest -sup.], impudent, unashamed, saucy [saucier -comp., sauciest -sup.], pert.

    Ex: And what I'm trying to suggest is that there's something shameful about a profession that has allowed this kind of blatant and rank ethnocentrism, racism, chauvinism, the whole schmier, to persist this long.

    Ex: The young man in the picture is myself snapped twenty-five years or so ago by a cheeky thirteen-year-old during the first few months of my first teaching job.
    Ex: They accepted the government's brazen lies stating that Ramón Colás, the co-founder of the library movement, has not been arrested as a prisoner of conscience.
    Ex: Another librarian described herself as 'a shameless, self-promoter'.
    Ex: This series of personal essays are at various times sassy, profound, superficial, and maddening.
    Ex: Some female readers also appreciate bad-girl books for their powerful, independent heroines, and in-your-face attitude.
    Ex: The article is entitled 'What's the number?: an unofficial and unabashed guide to the Library of Congress Classification for the social sciences'.
    Ex: Caslon rejected the brash contrast of the later Dutch founts, and produced types that were without serious blemish, but also without much life.
    Ex: He had always anathematized those who took unscrupulous advantage of their positions, and those who succumbed to their insolent methods.
    Ex: 'That young man was terribly rude'.
    Ex: The Library Association is impudent in suggesting that it will impose sanctions on those who fail to keep abreast of developments in librarianship.
    Ex: There is a need for more study of current lending patterns to establish a clear mandate for unashamed purchase of AV materials by traditionally print-oriented librarians.
    Ex: Singers and other entertainers in Burma have been warned to cut out saucy behaviour and be neat and tidy or face the consequences.
    Ex: He lingered round the bookstall looking at the books and papers till a pert girl behind the counter asked him if he wouldn't like a chair.
    * mentira descarada = blatant lie, bare-faced lie.

    * * *
    descarado1 -da
    1 ‹persona/actitud› brazen, shameless
    el muy descarado, pedirme dinero así what (a) nerve he has, asking me for money like that
    las elecciones fueron un fraude descarado the elections were a blatant fraud o were clearly rigged
    ( Esp fam): si tuviese dinero, descarado que me iría a vivir sola you can bet your life if I had the money, I'd go off and live alone ( colloq)
    lo hizo adrede, descarado make no mistake, she did it on purpose, she did it on purpose, you can be sure of it o you can bet your life on it
    descarado2 -da
    masculine, feminine
    no contestes así a tu madre ¡descarado! don't talk back to your mother like that, you rude o ( BrE) cheeky little boy
    ese chico es un descarado that boy has a lot of nerve
    * * *

    Del verbo descararse: ( conjugate descararse)

    descarado es:

    el participio

    descarado
    ◊ -da adjetivo ‹persona/actitud brazen, shameless;

    es muy descarado he has a lot of nerve
    descarado,-a
    I adj (insolente) cheeky, insolent
    (desvergonzado) shameless
    una mentira descarada, a barefaced lie
    II sustantivo masculino y femenino cheeky person

    ' descarado' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    atrevida
    - atrevido
    - cara
    - descarada
    - desvergonzada
    - desvergonzado
    - golfa
    - golfo
    - lisa
    - liso
    - sinvergüenza
    - fresco
    - patudo
    English:
    audacious
    - barefaced
    - blatant
    - bold
    - brash
    - brassy
    - brazen
    - cheeky
    - downright
    - forward
    - shameless
    - unabashed
    - outright
    - pert
    * * *
    descarado, -a
    adj
    1. [desvergonzado] [persona] cheeky, impertinent;
    ¡no seas (tan) descarado! don't be (so) cheeky!;
    ¡el muy descarado se ha atrevido a burlarse de mí! the cheeky devil had the nerve to make fun of me!
    2. [flagrante] barefaced, blatant;
    una mentira descarada a barefaced lie;
    ¡es un robo descarado! it's daylight robbery!;
    ¡ha sido un penalti descarado! there's no way that wasn't a penalty!
    adv
    Esp Fam [por supuesto, seguro] you bet!;
    no lo conseguirá, descarado there's no way she'll manage to do it;
    ¡descarado que iremos! too right we're going to go!
    nm,f
    cheeky devil;
    eres un descarado mirando you are awful the way you stare at people
    * * *
    adj rude, impertinent
    * * *
    descarado, -da adj
    : brazen, impudent
    * * *
    descarado adj cheeky [comp. cheekier; superl. cheekiest]

    Spanish-English dictionary > descarado

  • 17 etnocentrismo

    m.
    ethnocentrism.
    * * *
    * * *
    Ex. And what I'm trying to suggest is that there's something shameful about a profession that has allowed this kind of blatant and rank ethnocentrism, racism, chauvinism, the whole schmier, to persist this long.
    * * *

    Ex: And what I'm trying to suggest is that there's something shameful about a profession that has allowed this kind of blatant and rank ethnocentrism, racism, chauvinism, the whole schmier, to persist this long.

    * * *
    ethnocentrism
    * * *
    ethnocentrism

    Spanish-English dictionary > etnocentrismo

  • 18 iconoclasta

    adj.
    iconoclastic.
    f. & m.
    iconoclast.
    * * *
    1 iconoclastic
    1 iconoclast
    * * *
    1.
    2.
    * * *
    I
    adjetivo iconoclastic
    II
    masculino y femenino iconoclast
    * * *
    = iconoclast, iconoclastic.
    Nota: Adjetivo.
    Ex. While this may sound like a contradictory and reactionary sort of chauvinism coming from an iconoclast, our people have got to come first.
    Ex. These manuscripts were kept underground, which enabled them to survive the iconoclastic years of Muslim supremacy in India.
    * * *
    I
    adjetivo iconoclastic
    II
    masculino y femenino iconoclast
    * * *
    = iconoclast, iconoclastic.
    Nota: Adjetivo.

    Ex: While this may sound like a contradictory and reactionary sort of chauvinism coming from an iconoclast, our people have got to come first.

    Ex: These manuscripts were kept underground, which enabled them to survive the iconoclastic years of Muslim supremacy in India.

    * * *
    iconoclastic
    iconoclast
    * * *

    iconoclasta
    I adjetivo iconoclastic
    II mf iconoclast
    ' iconoclasta' also found in these entries:
    English:
    iconoclastic
    * * *
    adj
    iconoclastic
    nmf
    iconoclast
    * * *
    : iconoclast

    Spanish-English dictionary > iconoclasta

  • 19 lúgubremente

    adv.
    lugubriously, somberly.
    * * *
    ADV (=tristemente) mournfully; (=seriamente, sobriamente) sombrely, somberly (EEUU)
    * * *
    = gloomily, spookily.
    Ex. He began by gloomily reflecting that 'the only version of national pride encouraged by American popular culture is a smipleminded militaristic chauvinism'.
    Ex. The members of Harvey's family seem almost spookily healthy and perky and nice to each other.
    * * *
    = gloomily, spookily.

    Ex: He began by gloomily reflecting that 'the only version of national pride encouraged by American popular culture is a smipleminded militaristic chauvinism'.

    Ex: The members of Harvey's family seem almost spookily healthy and perky and nice to each other.

    Spanish-English dictionary > lúgubremente

  • 20 manido

    adj.
    1 trite, hackneyed, cliché.
    2 shop-worn, worn.
    3 gamey, gamy.
    4 full, swarming.
    past part.
    past participle of spanish verb: manir.
    * * *
    1 (frase) hackneyed; (tema) stale
    2 (objeto) well-worn
    * * *
    ADJ
    1) (=trillado) [tema] trite, stale; [frase] hackneyed
    2) (=pasado) [carne] high, gamy; [frutos secos] stale
    * * *
    - da adjetivo < frase> hackneyed; < tema> stale
    * * *
    = rank, hackneyed, worn, well-worn, jaded, overused [over-used], overworked, stale, timeworn.
    Ex. And what I'm trying to suggest is that there's something shameful about a profession that has allowed this kind of blatant and rank ethnocentrism, racism, chauvinism, the whole schmier, to persist this long.
    Ex. It is the order of words that helps us to distinguish between 'office post' and 'post office' or, to quote the hackneyed example, 'blind Venetian' and 'Venetian blind'.
    Ex. Mearns warns us, 'Recollection is treacherous; it is usually too broad or too narrow for another's use; and what is more serious, it is frequently undependable and worn and feeble'.
    Ex. To use a well-worn example, the string (2) physiotherapy (6) nurses $h for (6) bibliographies obviously represents a different sense from the similar string (2) physiotherapy (6) bibliographies (6) nurses $h for.
    Ex. He is notorious for poking fun at those who advance jaded, esoteric ideas about the importance of studying classical languages.
    Ex. Sustainable agriculture has become a very over-used concept.
    Ex. User-friendliness is a much overworked phrase which has been interpreted in different ways by software houses.
    Ex. We librarians are already infiltrators into the stale round of our readers' domestic daily life.
    Ex. This is in stark contrast to the warped logic and timeworn language to which Lebanon's rulers resorted in the wake of the tragedy.
    ----
    * composición musical manida = war horse.
    * manido, lo = worn, the.
    * * *
    - da adjetivo < frase> hackneyed; < tema> stale
    * * *
    = rank, hackneyed, worn, well-worn, jaded, overused [over-used], overworked, stale, timeworn.

    Ex: And what I'm trying to suggest is that there's something shameful about a profession that has allowed this kind of blatant and rank ethnocentrism, racism, chauvinism, the whole schmier, to persist this long.

    Ex: It is the order of words that helps us to distinguish between 'office post' and 'post office' or, to quote the hackneyed example, 'blind Venetian' and 'Venetian blind'.
    Ex: Mearns warns us, 'Recollection is treacherous; it is usually too broad or too narrow for another's use; and what is more serious, it is frequently undependable and worn and feeble'.
    Ex: To use a well-worn example, the string (2) physiotherapy (6) nurses $h for (6) bibliographies obviously represents a different sense from the similar string (2) physiotherapy (6) bibliographies (6) nurses $h for.
    Ex: He is notorious for poking fun at those who advance jaded, esoteric ideas about the importance of studying classical languages.
    Ex: Sustainable agriculture has become a very over-used concept.
    Ex: User-friendliness is a much overworked phrase which has been interpreted in different ways by software houses.
    Ex: We librarians are already infiltrators into the stale round of our readers' domestic daily life.
    Ex: This is in stark contrast to the warped logic and timeworn language to which Lebanon's rulers resorted in the wake of the tragedy.
    * composición musical manida = war horse.
    * manido, lo = worn, the.

    * * *
    manido -da
    ‹frase› hackneyed; ‹tema› stale
    * * *

    manido
    ◊ -da adjetivo ‹ frase hackneyed;


    tema stale
    manido,-a adjetivo well-worn
    ' manido' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    gastada
    - gastado
    - manida
    English:
    derivative
    - hackneyed
    * * *
    manido, -a adj
    un tema muy manido a well-worn o much-discussed topic
    * * *
    adj fig
    clichéd, done to death fam
    * * *
    manido, -da adj
    : hackneyed, stale, trite

    Spanish-English dictionary > manido

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