Semipatriotic

Dazed, like sleepwalkers, Washingtonians clustered that evening and late into the night in Lafayette Park, across Pennsylvania Avenue. They sang the National Anthem and other patriotic or semipatriotic songs, and when they tired of singing, they stood, or sat, or even knelt on the grass, simply staring at the now-darkened Executive Mansion, even as they or possibly others might turn their eyes toward the heavens, hoping, beseeching. . . .

Accordingly, the so-called "civic religions" developed; these were semireligious and semipatriotic in character, and all residents were expected to participate in them.

By 1940 the transition of May Day from a Socialist to a semipatriotic celebration was complete.

Another group whom he attacked in his sermon were those semipatriotic officials who had served Prussia during the War of Liberation without any real sense of purpose.