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flag-waving
Word definitions for flag-waving in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
flag-waving \flag-waving\ adj. fanatically patriotic; same as chauvinistic . [prenominal] Syn: chauvinistic, jingoistic, nationalistic, superpatriotic.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. fanatically patriotic [syn: chauvinistic , flag-waving(a) , jingoistic , nationalistic , ultranationalistic , superpatriotic ]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Flag-waving is a fallacious argument or propaganda technique used to justify an action based on the undue connection to nationalism or patriotism or benefit for an idea, group or country. It is a variant of argumentum ad populum . This fallacy appeals to ...
Usage examples of flag-waving.
Now it's just stamping our feet and flag-waving, caracole and saunter until the action starts-a little later than any of us expected.
A person who says, "I love my country--right or wrong" or "America--love it or leave it" may be a flag-waving, patriotic speech-making politician who is secretly an antidemocratic authoritarian (similar in some ways to Hitler).
Is this propaganda mostly anti-Hun and jingoistic flag-waving as in the last war, or is it more anti-Fascist?