patriotically correct
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.87 in modern English
31
Scrabble Score
20
Letters
8
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "[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"."
- "I was someone who felt passionately about the suffering of others, and I was dedicated to fighting that suffering, especially if the sufferers were poor and oppressed [, and] Christians who didn't share [that view] disgusted me. (In others words, I was being politically correct and despised those who were patriotically correct ... .)"
- "An amusing recent example of patriotically correct language was the proposal in 2003 ... to rename french fries and french toast as freedom fries and freedom toast on cafeteria menus in the U.S. House of Representatives."
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.
Usage
Inflected Forms
more patriotically correct (comparative)
most patriotically correct (superlative)