Synonym: chauvinistic, loyal, nationalistic. Antonym: traitorous. Similar words: patriotism, patriot, compatriot, biotic, idiotic, symbiotic, antibiotic, macrobiotic. Meaning: [‚peɪtrɪ'ɑtɪk /‚pætrɪ'ɒ-] adj. inspired by love for your country.
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31. On days of national holiday we had a parade, marching up and down and singing patriotic songs.
32. Moreover, religious and patriotic works fulfilled an important role in reaffirming traditional beliefs.
33. Kingston's three midshipmen are carefully chosen to satisfy the contemporary patriotic line.
34. In January a national poll found that most whites think blacks are lazy,[www.Sentencedict.com] less intelligent and less patriotic than whites are.
35. Nothing expresses that better than joining together to sing traditional and patriotic songs.
36. A man had his arm around her, rocking her from side to side as the singers swayed with their patriotic song.
37. It was an evening when I knew Lily went to a weekly patriotic sewing and knitting circle in a near-by parish hall.
38. This is true of patriotic and political as well as religious blind faith.
39. After his body was returned to Kinshasa, carefully planned scenes of public grief turned into a mass demonstration of patriotic fervour.
40. He can also wax as patriotic as the most conservative defense-industry executive.
41. Dash was doing his patriotic bit to fund the U. S. trade deficit.
42. Jett doesn't like to be reminded of its patriotic overtones.
43. Most of the productions shown here were patriotic spectacles requiring little dancing ability.
44. Even at this moment of patriotic and quasi-mystical emotion(sentencedict.com), rationalized functionalism is expressed.
45. There were occasions to admire the police enmasse as they marched in serried ranks to patriotic tunes from the Police Band.
46. The past, however, ranks alongside the patriotic and the religious as a major underlying theme.
47. Only Diana's deep sense of patriotic duty made her agree to the arrangement, it told its readers.
48. Network South East has its patriotic red, white, and blue bands with grey thrown in for good measure.
49. The last apprehension may have been as much influenced by professional considerations as patriotic ones.
50. At Llewellyn's funeral service, she was remembered as a patriotic American who had served her country well.
51. Four Patriotic Accord deputies began immediate moves to impeach eight Supreme Court judges on the grounds of incompetence.
52. I love the patriotic feeling I get, hearing this stuff.
53. She denies being a racist, claiming to be merely patriotic.
54. In real life the distinction between sheer brigandage and patriotic guerrilla activities was often blurred.
55. Their patriotic zeal developed into demonstrations originating at Beida in September 1985.
56. Though a fictional character, Cu Chulainn came to stand for a very real sense of patriotic courage and self-sacrifice.
57. Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. In either event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else. Theodore Roosevelt
58. Imagine there are homes for all Who truly do belong Imagine that we're proud to sing A patriotic song.
59. Many states mandate daily flag salutes and other patriotic exercises.
60. To talk simply of empires and patriotic duty was sensed to be no longer convincing as a public justification for these sacrifices.
More similar words: patriotism, patriot, compatriot, biotic, idiotic, symbiotic, antibiotic, macrobiotic, patrimony, patriarch, patrician, patriarchy, expatriate, repatriate, patriarchal, repatriation, riot, riotous, run riot, chariot, riotously, charioteer, patron, patrol, patronage, patronise, patronize, patronymic, matrix, patronizing.