strollingbones
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Full Definition of PATRIOTEER
: one who makes an ostentatious show of patriotism from venal or degraded motives : an insincere, misguided, or spurious patriot : flag-waver <they are quick to detect the phony and they can distinguish a patriot from a patrioteer — Dorothy Thompson> <catchword patrioteers — S.V.Benét> <patrioteers, roaring nationalists and reformers with apparently simple devices for making the world better and safer — Stanley Walker>
: one who makes an ostentatious show of patriotism from venal or degraded motives : an insincere, misguided, or spurious patriot : flag-waver <they are quick to detect the phony and they can distinguish a patriot from a patrioteer — Dorothy Thompson> <catchword patrioteers — S.V.Benét> <patrioteers, roaring nationalists and reformers with apparently simple devices for making the world better and safer — Stanley Walker>