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US
/ˈfɫeɪɡɹənt/
]
[ UK /flˈeɪɡɹənt/ ]
[ UK /flˈeɪɡɹənt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible
a glaring error
rank treachery
gross ineptitude
flagrant violation of human rights
gross injustice
a crying shame
an egregious lie
How To Use flagrant In A Sentence
- The judge called the decision "a flagrant violation of international law".
- The issue is the flagrant abuse of the term skeptical as used by someone with a highly selective and prejudiced opinion, as coupled with an inherent mistrust of a majority Deltoid
- In the event of a conflagrant disaster each passenger could be immediately identified.
- Rau Nagar two years ago with the traditional Indian mat of "panchayat," or local justice, when nobody else would address a flagrant case of wife-beating. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
- (The word Easter appears only once in the King James Version of the Bible-in Acts 12: 4-where it is flagrantly mistranslated from the Greek word pascha, which should be translated "Passover," as most versions render it.) Latest Articles
- It is therefore odd to watch him waver and wobble over an issue that is not only outrageously unjust, but also flagrantly illegal.
- Her two-song cameo, near the concert's midpoint, had all the rude conflagrant force of a meteor crashing onto the stage. NYT > Home Page
- We were penniless and without shoes while people from the same hotel sat next to us in the airport flagrantly eating burgers and chips and drinking coke.
- He is someone that shows flagrant disregard for the orders.
- The paper was returned with only one red line, where he had corrected my spelling of 'in flagrante delicto'. Times, Sunday Times