flagrant
adjective
shockingly noticeable or evident; obvious; glaring.
flagrance
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a word derived from
flagrant.
Example Sentences
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“Kim Dotcom was so successful, and he was well known for his flagrance, and his sports cars, and his racing cars, and style of life, that he was made an easy target” Wozniak said.
From Salon ● Jul. 11, 2012
She knows to an inch the degrees of flagrance officially permitted to the attached and the unattached!
From Far to Seek A Romance of England and India by Maud Diver
He had been prepared for many things, but he had not been prepared for that, for the publicity, the flagrance of it.
From The Return of the Prodigal by May Sinclair
Through the rigour of winter we had been brought now to the very flagrance of the dog-star, to the time when human nature can pretend no opposition to the mood of the lordly sun.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 by Various
R, how must his peturnle art have bet, as these Budds, which he had nurrisht, bust into buty, and twined in blooming flagrance round his pirentle Busm!
From Burlesques by William Makepeace Thackeray
