[ US /ˈfɫeɪɡɹənt/ ]
[ UK /flˈe‍ɪɡɹənt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. 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
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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
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