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conspicuously

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con·spic·u·ous  (kn-spky-s)
adj.
1. Easy to notice; obvious.
2. Attracting attention, as by being unusual or remarkable; noticeable. See Synonyms at noticeable.
[From Latin cnspicuus, from cnspicere, to observe : com-, intensive pref.; see com- + specere, to look; see spek- in Indo-European roots.]
con·spicu·ous·ly adv.
con·spicu·ous·ness n.
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Adv.1.conspicuously - in a manner tending to attract attention; "there have been plenty of general declarations about willingness to meet and talk, but conspicuously no mention of time and place"
inconspicuously - in a manner intended to avoid attracting attention; "he had entered the room inconspicuously"
2.conspicuously - in a prominent way; "the new car was prominently displayed in the driveway"
prominently


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The house was standing, still vacant and conspicuously unfit, when I last heard of it, some twenty years afterward.
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To his left, back of the rows of citizens, was a spacious temporary platform upon which were seated the scholars who were to take part in the exercises of the evening; rows of small boys, washed and dressed to an intolerable state of discomfort; rows of gawky big boys; snowbanks of girls and young ladies clad in lawn and muslin and conspicuously conscious of their bare arms, their grand- mothers' ancient trinkets, their bits of pink and blue ribbon and the flowers in their hair.
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She seemed to stand out in his consciousness as conspicuously as the I shall had stood out on the typed page, and he began to take notice.
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