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patrioteer|peɪtrɪəˈtɪə(r)|
[f. patriot n. + -eer.]
One who makes a public display of patriotism; one whose patriotism is spurious and insincere. Also attrib.
1928Amer. Speech III. 262 The second camp is made up of nationalists, or, if you will, of patrioteers. 1935Evening Sun (Baltimore) 11 Apr. 27/2 Some British patrioteer has grown terribly excited over the possibility that Soviet arguments broadcast from Moscow may be so strong..as to sweep the masses of Englishmen from their political moorings. 1939Time 27 Feb. 9/1 By patrioteer Time means to describe the professional patriot, the kind of refuge-seeking scoundrel who waves a red-white-&-blue handkerchief when he should be wiping his own nose. 1941‘Fanfarlo’ in Penguin New Writing X. 112 A patrioteer is very simply a man who will cut his country's throat to an old tune. 1954Manch. Guardian Weekly 18 Feb. 9 Talking in ‘patrioteer’ terms. 1954Birmingham (Alabama) News 14 Apr. 10 They are quick to detect the phony and they can distinguish a patriot from a patrioteer. 1954D. Riesman Individualism Reconsidered iii. vii. 137 Mr. MacLeish has suffered greatly from patrioteers. 1956C. W. Mills Power Elite xii. 271 The American elite have not remained as patrioteer essayists have described them to us. |