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Perhaps the most blatant, she said, was its sole use of voter registration lists as a source of finding potential jurors.
Federal Court’s Jury Selection Plan Under Fire|Maya Srikrishnan|January 22, 2021|Voice of San Diego
Carrasco’s inclusion in the deal was a blatant salary dump, owing to the $27 million he is owed over the next two seasons.
With deep pockets, grand ambition, new Mets owner swings blockbuster deal for Francisco Lindor|Dave Sheinin|January 7, 2021|Washington Post
Separately, there’s a blatant disconnect between those designing the PPP process and the businesses trying to benefit from it.
Why the PPP still falls short for small businesses|jakemeth|December 31, 2020|Fortune
The show’s writers force us to confront how we think we would act if we woke up covered in someone else’s blood in a luxury Bangkok hotel, and then prod us with Cassie doing the blatant opposite.
The absurd, sadistic joy of The Flight Attendant|Alex Abad-Santos|December 18, 2020|Vox

Critics fume that the shorts’ actions represent a blatant conflict of interest.
Little Big Shorts: How tiny ‘activist’ firms became sheriffs in the stock market’s Wild West|Bernhard Warner|December 3, 2020|Fortune
A blatant case of interrogators asking leading questions is that of David Vasquez.
How the U.S. Justice System Screws Prisoners with Disabilities|Elizabeth Picciuto|December 16, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Besides the blatant silliness of it all, it does raise some questions—and not about sex.
The UK’s War on Porn: ‘Proof That Men Making These Rules Do Not See Women as Equals’|Aurora Snow|December 6, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The second intervention was much more blatant and actually occurred in the middle of an election campaign.
The Inside Story of U.S. Meddling in Israel’s Elections|Aaron David Miller|December 4, 2014|DAILY BEAST
According to Haselberger, the archdiocese ignored not only blatant secular crimes, but obvious canonical crimes as well.
How Sicko Priests Got Away With It|Barbie Latza Nadeau|November 16, 2014|DAILY BEAST
True, it is grounded in the realities of a fight against a sort of blatant segregation that no longer exists.
Martin Luther King’s Nobel Speech Is an Often Ignored Masterpiece|Malcolm Jones|October 16, 2014|DAILY BEAST
She realised now from what a blatant scoundrel she had been saved; but she still bitterly resented our intervention.
Jaffery|William J. Locke
Neither our blatant friend Sabatier, nor our courteous acquaintance of last night, shall catch me sleeping.
The Light That Lures|Percy Brebner
There is not a patent medicine on the market for which any more blatant, extravagant and ridiculous claims are made.
The Propaganda for Reform in Proprietary Medicines, Vol. 1 of 2|Various
Three months' time was all that these blatant boasters allowed for the utter destruction of the Huguenots in France.
History of the Rise of the Huguenots|Henry Baird
At other times the great bull would merely have been enraged at this blatant clamor and taken it as a challenge.
Kings in Exile|Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts

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blatant

/ (ˈbleɪtənt) /

adjective

glaringly conspicuous or obviousa blatant lie

offensively noticeableblatant disregard for a person's feelings

offensively noisy

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blatancy, nounblatantly, adverb

Word Origin for blatant

C16: coined by Edmund Spenser; probably influenced by Latin blatīre to babble; compare Middle Low German pladderen

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