male chauvinist

noun

a male who patronizes, disparages, or otherwise denigrates females in the belief that they are inferior to males and thus deserving of less than equal treatment or benefit.

Origin:
1965–70

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male chauvinism

—n
	the belief, held or alleged to be held by certain men, that men are inherently superior to women

male chauvinist

—n, —*adj*

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male chauvinist

1970 (adj.), see chauvinism.

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