nationalistic

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Nationalistic secret societies such as the Cherry Blossom Association and the Blood-Pledge Corps blossomed within the Japanese armed forces, particularly in the prestigious Kwantung Army stationed in Korea.

From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022

Nationalistic right-wingers targeted such “painted and powdered” young men for persecution, but in “Brideshead Revisited” fashion, the effeminate met the parodic in the defiant aesthetes’ pursuits.

From Washington Post • Dec. 1, 2022

Passage 2 Nationalistic pride in the myth of the venerable New England town meeting is entirely under�standable.

From SAT Tests

Nationalistic and anticolonial pressures were building among the Asian populations of the islands, and the former Dutch rulers were dead or not yet repatriated from Japanese prison camps.

From Time Magazine Archive

Down to the middle of the nineteenth century these seditious stirrings remained sporadic, unco-ordinated outbursts of religious, regional, or tribal feeling, with no genuinely "Nationalistic" programme of action or ideal.

From The New World of Islam by Stoddard, Lothrop