semi-patriotic
English
Adjective
semi-patriotic (not comparable)
- Alternative form of semipatriotic
- 1990, Ronald Forrest Reid, Edward Everett: Unionist Orator, →ISBN, page 27:
- The speech was a well balanced adaptation of rationalism and emotionalism for a semi-scholarly, semi-patriotic, and highly emotional occasion.
- 2014, Todd Decker, Who Should Sing 'Ol' Man River'?: The Lives of an American Song, →ISBN:
- Although — and there is always an example to be found in the history of this song — there was at least one semi-patriotic sing-along to “Ol' Man River.”
- 2017, Leon Trotsky, History of the Russian Revolution, →ISBN:
- On the subject of a semi-patriotic speech of the Menshevik Cheidze, at the beginning of the war, the president of the Duma, Rodzianko, wrote: “Subsequent events proved the closeness of Cheidze to German circles.”
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