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patriotically correct

patriotically correct adjective: synonym of conservatively correct.

Adjective

patriotically correct (comparative more patriotically correct, superlative most patriotically correct)

  1. (derogatory) Synonym of conservatively correct.
    • [W]e only mumbled our objections [to the wars], then and now, because we feared being caught by the patriotically correct.1991 June 9, Anna Quindlen, “Instant Replay, Confettied”, in Wall Street Journal
    • The obsessive subject of our sterile confrontation between the two PCs ― the politically and the patriotically correct ― is clumsily labeled "multiculturalism".1993, Robert Hughes, Culture of Complaint

Synonyms of patriotically correct

Forms of patriotically correct

comparativemore patriotically correct
superlativemost patriotically correct

Origin of patriotically correct

Coined as a counterpart to politically correct, due to the perception that patriotism is a right-wing trait. Popularized by Robert Hughes's 1993 book Culture of Complaint.

Questions about patriotically correct

What does patriotically correct mean?
Patriotically correct means synonym of conservatively correct.
What part of speech is patriotically correct?
Patriotically correct is an adjective.

Words near patriotically correct in the dictionary

  1. patriothood
  2. patriotic
  3. patriotic correctness
  4. patriotical
  5. patriotically
  6. patriotically correct
  7. patriotick
  8. patrioticness
  9. patriotics
  10. patriotism
  11. patriotisms

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