conspicuous

Used primarily for ventilation purposes, this conspicuous aperture also allowed the entry of rainwater, which was then collected on the floor-based cavity known as the impluvium and then passed on to the underground cisterns for household usage.

The system is truck-mounted and road-mobile, as are the big and conspicuous radars that stood next to it on display.

For Shaftel this kind of licentious behavior amounts to “conspicuous consumption disguised as urbanity.”

Any list of his conspicuous qualities turns out to be a recitation of opposites.

As recently as a few years ago, buying and driving a hybrid was an exercise in conspicuous consumption.

It was a dizzying time, and Shaquille handled an array of new situations with conspicuous aplomb.

Her skeleton was long a conspicuous object, visited by ramblers on the Island.

In this Clay was conspicuous, and Webster and Calhoun were his sympathetic allies.

There are several buzzards and falcons and a few kites, but vultures are conspicuous by their absence.

She could hardly fail to catch his eye, she was so conspicuous with bandages.

I raised mine to my shoulder, and pointing it toward a conspicuous savage, pulled the trigger.