| 单词 | patrioteer | 
| 释义 | patrioteern. 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. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social attitudes > patriotism > 			[noun]		 > exaggerated or bellicose > one who chauvinist1877 jingo1878 jingoist1884 patrioteer1918 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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