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patriotically correct

adj

Etymology

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.

Definitions

  1. 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.
    • The obsessive subject of our sterile confrontation between the two PCs ― the politically and the patriotically correct ― is clumsily labeled "multiculturalism".

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