flagrant
Americanadjective
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shockingly noticeable or evident; obvious; glaring.
a flagrant error.
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notorious; scandalous.
a flagrant crime; a flagrant offender.
- Synonyms:
- egregious, monstrous, disgraceful
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Archaic. blazing, burning, or glowing.
adjective
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openly outrageous
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obsolete burning or blazing
Related Words
Flagrant, glaring, gross, outrageous, rank are adjectives suggesting extreme offensiveness. Flagrant, with a root sense of flaming or flaring, suggests evil or immorality so evident that it cannot be ignored or overlooked: a flagrant violation of the law. Glaring, meaning “shining brightly,” is similar to flagrant in emphasizing conspicuousness but usually lacks the imputation of immorality: a glaring error in computing the interest. Gross, which basically signifies excessive size, is even more negative in implication than the foregoing two terms, suggesting a mistake or impropriety of major proportions: a gross miscarriage of justice. Outrageous describes acts so far beyond the limits of decent behavior or accepted standards as to be totally insupportable: an outrageous abuse of the public trust. Rank, with its suggestion of bad odor, describes open offensiveness of the most objectionable kind, inviting total and unalloyed disapprobation: rank dishonesty, stinking to high heaven; Only rank stupidity would countenance such a step.
Other Word Forms
- flagrance noun
- flagrancy noun
- flagrantly adverb
- flagrantness noun
- nonflagrance noun
- nonflagrancy noun
- nonflagrant adjective
- nonflagrantly adverb
- unflagrant adjective
- unflagrantly adverb
Etymology
Origin of flagrant
First recorded in 1400–50; late Middle English, from Latin flagrant- (stem of flagrāns ), present participle of flagrāre “to burn”; -ant
Example Sentences
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She alleges in her claim that there was "a flagrant disregard for fundamental features of due process".
From BBC
But he rejected the idea that hotel owner Somani Hotels had shown a "flagrant or persistent abuse of planning control".
From BBC
Komasa knows authoritarianism in its most flagrant, brutal forms, but his new film “Anniversary” imagines a scenario in which fascism doesn’t stomp in, jackbooted, but creeps, pretty and ladylike, on kitten-heeled feet.
From Los Angeles Times
Opening the council's case, Philip Coppel KC said the hotel was breaching planning controls in a "serious, flagrant and continuing" way.
From BBC
It said the rescuers had been performing humanitarian work, wearing uniforms, and driving marked vehicles, and that the attack constituted a flagrant violation of international law.
From BBC
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