patrioteern.
/ˌpatrɪəˈtɪə/, /ˌpeɪtrɪəˈtɪə/, U.S. /ˈˌpeɪtriəˈtɪ(ə)r/ U.S. depreciative.
A person who makes a public display of patriotism, esp. for the sake of personal profit or advantage; a person whose patriotism is insincere.
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1918 N.Y. Times 3 Mar. 6/3 (headline) Senators leaning to labor draft... John Sharp Williams aims shaft at ‘patrioteers’... ‘I am getting tired of this “patrioteering” business. I love patriotism, but men who go about exploiting themselves..seem to think they are doing something very patriotic.’
1939 Time 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.
1954 Birmingham (Alabama) News 14 Apr. 10 They are quick to detect the phony and they can distinguish a patriot from a patrioteer.
1999 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 4 Nov. 16/1 Rathenau's acceptance of the post was regarded as an outrage by apoplectic patrioteers of the right.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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