patriotically correct

comparative more patriotically correct · superlative most patriotically correct

1. derogatorySynonym of conservatively correct.

   [W]e only mumbled our objections [to the wars], then and now, because we feared being caught by the patriotically correct.

   1991 June 9, Anna Quindlen, “Instant Replay, Confettied”, in Wall Street Journal

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   The obsessive subject of our sterile confrontation between the two PCs ― the politically and the patriotically correct ― is clumsily labeled "multiculturalism".

   1993, Robert Hughes, Culture of Complaint

   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 ... .)

   1993, John F. Alexander, The Secular Squeeze

   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.

   2005, Edwin L. Battistella, Bad Language: Are Some Words Better Than Others?

   Synonyms: conservatively correct