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flagrance

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fla·grant  (flgrnt)
adj.
1. Conspicuously bad, offensive, or reprehensible: a flagrant miscarriage of justice; flagrant cases of wrongdoing at the highest levels of government. See Usage Note at blatant.
2. Obsolete Flaming; blazing.

[Latin flagrns, flagrant-, present participle of flagrre, to burn; see bhel-1 in Indo-European roots.]

flagran·cy, flagrance n.
flagrant·ly adv.
Synonyms: flagrant, glaring, gross, egregious, rank2
These adjectives refer to what is conspicuously bad or offensive. Flagrant applies to what is so offensive that it cannot escape notice: flagrant disregard for the law.
What is glaring is blatantly and painfully manifest: a glaring error; glaring contradictions.
Gross suggests a magnitude of offense or failing that cannot be condoned or forgiven: gross ineptitude; gross injustice.
What is egregious is outrageously bad: an egregious lie.
Rank implies that the term it qualifies is as indicated to an extreme, violent, or gross degree: rank stupidity; rank treachery.
Translations
flagrance, flagrancy
neklatante or krasse Offensichtlichkeit; (of affair, defiance, disregard)Unverhohlenheit f; such was the flagrance of this injustice …das war eine derart eklatante or krasse or himmelschreiende Ungerechtigkeit; the unabashed flagrance of his abuse of privilegedie unverhohlene Art, mit der er seine Privilegien missbraucht


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