flagrant
adjective
shockingly noticeable or evident; obvious; glaring.
flagrantly
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a word derived from
flagrant.
Example Sentences
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And they’ve put themselves in this position not by pioneering a groundbreaking strategy, but by flagrantly violating the most ironclad rule of the Moneyball era: never bunt.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
Some of these people were not flagrantly blowing off work.
From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026
"With the dangerous injunction poised to take effect for the first time on August 21, its stop-work mandate is even more flagrantly inequitable, if not impossible," he wrote.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
In David Ireland’s comedy at Irish Repertory Theatre, a Hollywood actor’s meeting with the writer and the director of a new play goes flagrantly, hilariously awry.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026
It was as though, stumbling upon himself from the outside, he had suddenly caught himself out, taken himself flagrantly at fault.
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
