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adjective
brazenly obvious; flagrant: a blatant error in simple addition; a blatant lie.
offensively noisy or loud; clamorous: blatant radios.
tastelessly conspicuous: the blatant colors of the dress.
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Origin of blatant Coined by Edmund Spenser in 1596; compare Latin blatÄ«re âto babble, prate,â blaterÄre âto talk foolishly, babbleâ
OTHER WORDS FROM blatant bla·tan·cy, noun bla·tant·ly, adverb
WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH blatant blatant , flagrant Words nearby blatant blastostyle ,
blastula ,
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How to use blatant in a sentence Perhaps the most blatant , she said, was its sole use of voter registration lists as a source of finding potential jurors.
Carrascoâs inclusion in the deal was a blatant salary dump, owing to the $27 million he is owed over the next two seasons.
Separately, thereâs a blatant disconnect between those designing the PPP process and the businesses trying to benefit from it.
The showâs writers force us to confront how we think we would act if we woke up covered in someone elseâs blood in a luxury Bangkok hotel, and then prod us with Cassie doing the blatant opposite.
Critics fume that the shortsâ actions represent a blatant conflict of interest.
A blatant case of interrogators asking leading questions is that of David Vasquez.
Besides the blatant silliness of it all, it does raise some questionsâand not about sex.
The second intervention was much more blatant and actually occurred in the middle of an election campaign.
According to Haselberger, the archdiocese ignored not only blatant secular crimes, but obvious canonical crimes as well.
True, it is grounded in the realities of a fight against a sort of blatant segregation that no longer exists.
She realised now from what a blatant scoundrel she had been saved; but she still bitterly resented our intervention.
Neither our blatant friend Sabatier, nor our courteous acquaintance of last night, shall catch me sleeping.
There is not a patent medicine on the market for which any more blatant , extravagant and ridiculous claims are made.
Three months' time was all that these blatant boasters allowed for the utter destruction of the Huguenots in France.
At other times the great bull would merely have been enraged at this blatant clamor and taken it as a challenge.
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British Dictionary definitions for blatant
adjective
glaringly conspicuous or obvious a blatant lie
offensively noticeable blatant disregard for a person's feelings
offensively noisy
Derived forms of blatant blatancy , noun blatantly , 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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