conspicuously

[ kuhn-spik-yoo-uhs-lee ]

adverb

1. in a way that is obvious or easily seen, or that attracts notice, often intentionally:

   Safety guidelines shall be conspicuously posted in all work areas.

   In many ways, both conspicuously and sometimes more subtly, the movie challenges gender stereotypes.

Word History and Origins

Origin of conspicuously¹

conspicuous ( def ) + -ly

Example Sentences

It’s presumably to address this conspicuous absence that Robinson has now compiled “Nobody Ever Asked Me About the Girls,” a well-intentioned but slapdash attempt to give equal time to women in popular music.

From Washington Post

After backlash from Fairfax residents and conspicuous lack of support from the school board, Brabrand backed away from that proposal.

From Washington Post

The conspicuous marathon tourists, patrolling midtown in tracksuits, ready to gorge themselves on diner pasta.

From Outside Online

Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and James Monroe are why Virginia’s stamp is so conspicuous in the national story.

From Washington Post

Surveys consistently show conspicuous gaps between Republicans and Democrats.

From No Straight News

Sabahi hoped to inspire young voters, but they are conspicuously absent at the polls.

From The Daily Beast

Earlier, in 2004, the Bush re-election effort conspicuously rode the rails of anti-gay prejudice to drive voter turnout.

From The Daily Beast

The middle class became more conspicuously consumptive than ever before.

From The Daily Beast

So the Obama bill corrects what was conspicuously awful about the Bush bill.

From The Daily Beast

Did he have to be so conspicuously left out of the loop in his own White House?

From The Daily Beast

Of the parts the young assistant of Nicolas Amati was allowed to put his individuality to, conspicuously stands the scroll.

From Project Gutenberg

But in nothing is the inartistic character of English smoking so conspicuously exemplified as in the use of 'lights.'

From Project Gutenberg

In every case, selfishness is the root of all ill-breeding, and it is never more conspicuously displayed than in traveling.

From Project Gutenberg

He would hunt partridge industriously and conspicuously until men's minds were turned quite away from the subject of bear.

From Project Gutenberg

Galerius, an Illyrian herdsman, but exhibited more conspicuously upon the throne of empire the native barbarity of his character.

From Project Gutenberg

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