triumphalist
Speech parts
1. triumphalist - Noun
2. triumphalist - Adjective
Meaning
triumphalist (comparative more triumphalist, superlative most triumphalist)
Proud of one's belief or culture, and having a feeling of superiority.
triumphalist (plural triumphalists)
A triumphalist person.
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Examples
But then the barbarian figure of Commodore Perry leaps out to perform a traditional Kabuki "Lion Dance", which ends as a strutting, triumphalist, all-American cakewalk.
A self-proclaimed Internet triumphalist, Jarvis has a popular blog, BuzzMachine, and teaches at City University of New York.
To its credit, it's not remotely triumphalist (like most Haggadahs) and portrays all its Egyptian antogonists as sympathetic human beings, caught in an inexorable grand design.
Strong, 164. The triumphalist image that Elizabeth had cultivated towards the end of her reign, against a background of factionalism and military and economic difficulties, Haigh, 170. was taken at face value and her reputation inflated.
This 1992 triumphalist book by Francis Fukuyama argued that capitalism, liberalism and globalization were the only viable courses after the Cold War.