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flagrant
[ fley-gruhnt ]
adjective
- shockingly noticeable or evident; obvious; glaring:
a flagrant error.
- notorious; scandalous:
a flagrant crime; a flagrant offender.
Synonyms: egregious, monstrous, disgraceful
- Archaic. blazing, burning, or glowing.
flagrant
/ ˈfleɪɡrənt /
adjective
- openly outrageous
- obsolete.burning or blazing
Derived Forms
- ˈflagrancy, noun
- ˈflagrantly, adverb
Other Words From
- flagran·cy flagrance flagrant·ness noun
- flagrant·ly adverb
- non·flagrance noun
- non·flagran·cy noun
- non·flagrant adjective
- non·flagrant·ly adverb
- un·flagrant adjective
- un·flagrant·ly adverb
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of flagrant1
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
During that 1992-93 season, he finished with an NBA-high nine flagrant fouls — more than twice as many as the next-closest player, and more than fifteen teams finished with that year.
New York, owners of the NBA’s highest technical-foul total that season with 97, also finished with the most flagrants that year.
Between the appearance of flagrant corporate misconduct, the glaring regulatory failures and the staggering potential health effects, the matter seemed to call for just the kind of investigation that ProPublica was set up to pursue.
I kept a folder of photos I’d snapped of the most flagrant offenders.
After a review, officials upheld the call as a common foul on the Warriors’ Draymond Green, who hit James in the face and could have been called for a flagrant foul.
They were done to give a thin patina of ersatz legitimacy to what is otherwise flagrant sexual assault.
For all its flagrant indiscretions, though, FIFA has never run afoul of the law.
For Ankara to allow a suicide bomber through to launch a flagrant attack at this moment also would appear to be odd timing.
Flagrant anti-Semitism fell out of favor and was replaced by a closeted, unspoken bigotry.
Valderrama's modest career is in direct contrast to his flagrant lack of modesty.
She would receive money again for perpetuating it in a more flagrant form.
His impossibility appeared more flagrant in the face of Laura's marvellous achievement.
But even I was driven to protest against such flagrant unfairness. '
When the thing happened it appeared to be a flagrant and indubitable case of treachery; everyone was speaking of it.
So far as I could learn from my informant, the case was one of flagrant persecution, with no culpable occasion behind it.
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