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Flagrantly

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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.
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Adv.1.flagrantly - in a flagrant manner; "he is flagrantly disregarding the law"


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She smiled and smiled, and we met; but it was all done in a silence by this time flagrantly ominous.
Turn Of The Screw by James, Henry View in context
In the execution of this trust, the council were necessarily led to a comparison of both the legislative and executive proceedings, with the constitutional powers of these departments; and from the facts enumerated, and to the truth of most of which both sides in the council subscribed, it appears that the constitution had been flagrantly violated by the legislature in a variety of important instances.
Federalist Papers Authored by James Madison by Madison, James View in context
Just then, too, when the law had been so flagrantly outraged, its dignity must be asserted.
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