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Flag-waving   /flæg-wˈeɪvɪŋ/   Listen
Flag-waving

adjective
1.
Fanatically patriotic.  Synonyms: chauvinistic, jingoistic, nationalistic, superpatriotic, ultranationalistic.






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"Flag-waving" Quotes from Famous Books



... with big dividends do so heartily encourage among the poorer classes, who can thus be persuaded to fight for them; we know, indeed, that there is a good deal of very mean and unworthy Patriotism—the flag-waving variety, for instance, which we saw in the Boer war—exultant over a small nation of farmers defending their homes, and whipped up deliberately by a commercial gang for their own purposes; or the narrow-minded, ...
— The Healing of Nations and the Hidden Sources of Their Strife • Edward Carpenter

... imaginary sword and assumed a ridiculous posture, which he evidently connected with warlike exercises of some kind. The song praised the Government—"A Government er business men; men that's got sense"—and told how this wonderful Government had stopped the pouring out of poor folks' money upon flag-waving, to devote it to poor folks' needs. It alluded to the title that Administration had earned: "The Destroyers"; and acclaimed it a proud title, because it meant the destruction of "gold-laced bunkcombe," and of "vampires that were preying on the ...
— The Message • Alec John Dawson



Words linked to "Flag-waving" :   patriotic, loyal, superpatriotic



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