flagrant
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7.0
- adjective
- /ˈfleɪɡrənt/
- Formal
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flagrante
- This is a flagrant violation of my rights.
- flagrant violation
- flagrant abuse
- flagrant indifference
Always nice to hear the words like cool attached to flagrant abuses of power.
- Always nice to hear the words like cool attached to flagrant abuses of power.
- There's rules with flagrant misconduct where you're kicked out of the match, other team gets the points and then you have to sit the next meet.
- Most recently, the most flagrant violation of this long peace, as historians have called it, has been the invasion of Ukraine by Putin's Russia.
- It's a little flagrant, you know, flagrant foul.
- And I think he was just going for what he thought would cause the most flagrant insanity of murder, mayhem, and madness, right?
- Like if that's, I don't understand how that could possibly be, but that seems like a flagrant, you know, violation of, of FTC guidelines regarding advertising.
Examples
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That is a flagrant breach of established protocol.
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Most recently, the most flagrant violation of this long peace, as historians have called it, has been the invasion of Ukraine by Putin's Russia.
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And so it really was a flagrant example of, of an exchange of money for influence.
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And now this shockingly flagrant breach of contract!
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On the positive side, new laws and regulations may prevent the most flagrant privacy abuses.
Academic text (2014) -
Documents also showed flagrant mismanagement of government resources and theft of public property.
Academic text (1998) -
It was a flagrant breach of police procedure.
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U.S. military assistance was cut as a protest against the military's flagrant abuse of human rights.
Academic text (2003) -
For the Palestinian people, the Balfour Declaration constituted a flagrant denial of their right to exercise self-determination.
Academic text (1990) -
This is a flagrant violation of my rights.
Synonyms
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4.5
Very obvious and done openly without shame
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4.3
Very serious and obvious, showing a large fault or failure
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8.9
Very bad and obvious in a way that shocks people
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4.3
Very obvious and wrong in a way that shocks people
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9.9
Shows that something is completely bad or foolish
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6.8
Complete and clearly wrong
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9.9
A very wicked and criminal act that shocks people
Antonyms
How Flagrant
Surface Forms
Etymology
Flagrant comes from the Latin root flagrare, which means 'to burn', and is related to the English word flame. So a flagrant wrong act is like a 'burning' fault that cannot be hidden, which is why it means very obvious and shocking.