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flag-waving
[ flag-wey-ving ]
noun
- an ostentatiously emotional display of patriotism or factionalism.
flag-waving
noun
- informal.
- an emotional appeal or display intended to arouse patriotic or nationalistic feeling
- ( as modifier )
a flag-waving speech
Derived Forms
- ˈڱ-ˌɲ, noun
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of flag-waving1
Example Sentences
President Trump’s threats of a trade war and bringing Canada into the U.S. fold have created awkward moments for Americans living north of the border and made Canadians flag-waving patriots.
"I won't give up," she told thousands of flag-waving supporters in Place Vauban, close to the Eiffel Tower in Paris on Sunday.
Awards, there was backlash to her supposedly wading outside her genre and into the boot-stomping, flag-waving — very white — world of country.
These numbers don’t reveal much evidence of raging majoritarian white nationalism or the notion that African Americans would be alienated by flag-waving.
For Republicans, that should have become uncomfortably clear during last week’s Democratic National Convention, when the party of traditionally unherdable cats became a flag-waving, “Born in the U.S.A.”- singing single-celled organism.
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