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• Don't cast aspersions on me, or on my patriotism.From the entry cast aspersions
• Lenin claimed to be an antichauvinist, and yet he was eager to make Soviet patriotism a new form of jingoistic enterprise.From the entry antichauvinist
• We kill our own flesh for spiritual reasons cloaked in patriotism.2013 February 8, Wayne T. Williams, Kissing the Hand of the Dead, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 144. From the entry unbeast
• It's hard for Americans to understand the patriotism that can get bound up in place-names.2011, Ken Jennings, “Benchmarks”, in Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks, Scribner, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 72. From the entry complainant
• The last century amply demonstrated a link between flaggery and bogus patriotism.2010, Greg Gould, Lesley Boland, Sean Harverson, Caught in the Breeze: 10 Essays, page 83. From the entry flaggery
• There’s nothing like a fresh stack of Alexander Hamiltons to promote Mexican patriotism.2001, Paul S. Flores, Along the Border Lies, Berkeley, Calif.: Creative Arts Book Company, →ISBN, page 60. From the entry Alexander Hamilton
• The Neologs were known for their deep sense of patriotism to Hungary.1988, Arieh Ben-Tov, Facing the Holocaust in Budapest: The International Committee of the Red Cross and the Jews in Hungary, 1943–1945…. From the entry neolog
• An intelligent Socialist movement will use their patriotism, instead of merely insulting it, as hitherto.1941, George Orwell, The Lion and the Unicorn, Pt. III. From the entry socialist
• "Patriotism and theophobia are the sources of great tragedies and terrifying pictures.1913, Robert Loyalty Cru, Diderot as a Disciple of English Thought, page 421. From the entry theophobia
• Patriotism rhapsodized on the hustings, or cited rolling hexameters to an enraptured legislature.1911, Stephen Leacock, “The Passing of the Poet”, in Literary Lapses, London: John Lane, page 187. From the entry rhapsodize
• Despite this, the U.S. renamed the disease "liberty measles" to stoke anti-German sentiment and strengthen U.S. patriotism during World War I.2021 May 12, Ashley Mayrianne Champagne, “Why Scientists Should Not Name Diseases Based On Location”, in American Society for Microbiology. From the entry liberty measles
• "There is a real patriotism underneath the best of my music but it is a critical, questioning and often angry patriotism."2012 February 17, Fiachra Gibbons, quoting Bruce Springsteen, “Bruce Springsteen: ‘What was done to my country was un-American’”, in The…. From the entry un-American
• But this stance is not born of some French-fried patriotism, or some urge to peripatetically wander the countryside.2008 June 1, David Colman, “A Timely Way to Go Back in Time”, in New York Times. From the entry peripatetically
• Boyd’s ensuing burst of proud Scots patriotism quickly gives place to a flood of boundless basileiolatry and optimism.2008, Julian Goodare, Alasdair A. MacDonald, editors, Sixteenth-Century Scotland, page 414. From the entry basileiolatry
• But, for Livy, Roman patriotism is overriding, and this issues, of course, in an antiquarian attention to the city's origins.2007, John Burrow, A History of Histories, Penguin, published 2009, page 171. From the entry issue
• Early closing was introduced during World War One, when wartime patriotism and austerity and a general temperance mood impelled its introduction.2007, D. Kirkby, T. Luckins, Dining On Turtles: Food Feasts and Drinking in History, Springer, →ISBN, page 93. From the entry six o'clock swill
• The so-called ancient Chinese patriotism that has been repeatedly discussed by many people was only sinocentrism (huaxia zhongxing zhuyi).2000, Suisheng Zhao, quoting Wang Peiyuan, “The Origins of Chinese Nationalism”, in A Nation-state by Construction: Dynamics of Modern…. From the entry sinocentrism
• For the Left Behinds, Kennedy was evoking the most traditional values: patriotism, discipline, sacrifice for the common welfare.1983, David Lebedoff, The New Elite: The Death of Democracy, →ISBN, page 31. From the entry left behind
• How it promotes a sense of false macho and patriotism.1980 August 30, Jil Clark, quoting Bob Andrews, “Gays Talk About Registration and the Draft”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 6…. From the entry macho
• A handful of young students bent on showing their patriotism had stirred up more trouble than they possibly could have imagined.1971, Lyndon Johnson, The Vantage Point, Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 180. From the entry student
• Her ambition became boundless and her patriotism an obsession.1919 August, in The Pacific Unitarian, volumes 27, number 7, page 2 (170). From the entry withstrain
• The greatest hindrance to the development of a rural patriotism is that very prevalent and quite contagious disease, urbanitis.1916, Ernest Irving Antrim, Fifty million strong: or, Our rural reserve. From the entry urbanitis
• Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!"1907, O. Henry, “Cupid á la carte”, in Heart of the West. From the entry make the world go around
• As often as not, the perpetrators have been other Americans — motivated not by patriotism for a foreign flag, but by simple profit.2012 October 24, Eamon Javers, “Spies and Co.”, in New York Times, retrieved 29 Oct 2013. From the entry as often as not
• Matriotism is the opposite of patriotism.2006, Cindy Sheehan, “Matriotism”, in Dear President Bush (Open Media Series), San Francisco, Calif.: City Lights, →ISBN, page 113. From the entry matriotism
• Then you speak of "the President's spread-eagle patriotism," his delight in "barnyard language," his "readiness to sabre-rattle at the ripple of a flag,"1969, Lawrence Edmund Spivak, Meet the Press: America's Press Conference of the Air. From the entry sabre-rattle
• The stage animator of the Good Soldier Schweik, the teacher of Peter Weiss and Ralph Hochhuth, Piscator would have despised Utpal's glowing outbursts of patriotism, nationalism and folkism.2020, The Ideological Condition, page 644. From the entry folkism
• Not until rehabilitation was wrapped in the cloth of wartime patriotism—a program billed as necessary for the welfare of disabled soldiers—did it receive overwhelming congressional support.2011, Beth Linker, War's Waste: Rehabilitation in World War I America, →ISBN, page 148. From the entry cloth
• His was patriotism whose cause and consequence were mutually derived from the interplay of the dynamics of micro and macro forces within the Nigerian nation-state with its lestobiotic tendencies.2003, L. Ayo Banjo, Bola Ige: the passage of a modern Cicero, Bookcraft, →ISBN, page 95. From the entry lestobiotic
• There was support for the United States' involvement in Vietnam, though in Lawrence such support expressed a particular brand of patriotism, an Americaness drawn from the past.2002, Rusty L. Monhollon, "This Is America?:" The Sixties in Lawrence, Kansas, Palgrave, →ISBN, page 125. From the entry Americaness
• The petty-bourgeois camp-followers of the Social Democracy had been taken in by the bait of "patriotism," and thus the opponents of the Social Democracy were assured of success.1986, John Riddell, Lenin's Struggle for a Revolutionary International, page 479. From the entry camp follower
• The breakdown of our holidays into days of mere worldly diversion is pathetic—e. g.: Fourth of July without patriotism, Thanksgiving day without thanks and Christmas day without Christ.1912 December 20, “Church Notes”, in G. H. Graham, editor, The Nebraska News, volume VIII, number 42, Lincoln, Neb.: The Claflin…. From the entry Thanksgiving Day
• A spirit of patriotism is excellent, and the endeavour to engender and foster it, provided it is made along legitimate lines, calls for encouragement and not condemnation.1906 September, “[Editorial Notes.] Missionaries Assaulted in a Swadeshi Riot.”, in The Church Missionary Intelligencer: A Monthly Journal…. From the entry swadeshi
• As the first truly global generation, Generation Yers have some values consistent with traditionalists, including patriotism, valuing family and home, a strong sense of morality, and commitment to volunteer service.2015, Donald C. Mosley Jr., Donald C. Mosley Sr., Paul H. Pietri, Supervisory Management: The Art of Inspiring, Empowering, and Developing…. From the entry Generation Yer
• The Greek Prime Minister, Costas Simitis, has already had to overcome charges of lack of patriotism, when he rejected the “so called super patriots” demand to “Kurdify Greek foreign policy.”2009, Amikam Nachmani, Turkey: Facing a New Millennium: Coping with Intertwined Conflicts, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 191. From the entry Kurdify

Meaning of patriotism

1. noun Love of one's country; devotion to the welfare of one's compatriots; passion which inspires one to serve one's country.
2. noun The actions of a patriot.
3. noun The desire to compete sharply with, and perhaps also dominate, other nations; nationalism.

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Questions about patriotism in a sentence

How do you use patriotism in a sentence?

Patriotism is used as a noun. For example: “Don't cast aspersions on me, or on my patriotism.”

What is a short sentence with patriotism?

“Matriotism is the opposite of patriotism.”

What does patriotism mean?

Patriotism means love of one's country; devotion to the welfare of one's compatriots; passion which inspires one to serve one's country.