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Meanings of flagrant in English

Conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible.

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        Usage of flagrant in English
        1
        He said Ms Murray's actions were in flagrant disregard of that trust.
        Radio NZ
        2
        Fines are being handed out to the city's most flagrant water consumers.
        The South African
        3
        Usurers were the open representatives of flagrant covetousness in all the ages.
        Usury / A Scriptural, Ethical and Economic View
        4
        Tracy stared down the long table with a look of flagrant disrespect.
        Transfer of power
        5
        Still more flagrant were his machinations in the present troubles of France.
        History of the United Netherlands, 1590-92
        6
        But at least he saw the flagrant faults in these Portuguese duennas.
        Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon — Volume 02
        7
        In America our waste is less flagrant, but it is steadily increasing.
        Problems of Conduct: An Introductory Survey of Ethics
        8
        She lured him but not in so pronounced, so flagrant a manner.
        Merton of the Movies
        9
        In spite of his imaginative temperament, his cruelty to animals is flagrant.
        The Great White Tribe in Filipinia
        10
        This list is not complete, but covers only the more flagrant mutilations:
        Junky
        11
        He said his house was a repository of the most flagrant iniquities.
        The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves
        12
        This insult of the sovereign authority was too flagrant to be overlooked.
        Biographical Memorials of James Oglethorpe / Founder of the Colo...
        13
        The task would occupy and divert him, and be no flagrant sin.
        The Queen of Sheba, and My Cousin the Colonel
        14
        Major Major's elders disliked him because he was such a flagrant nonconformist.
        Catch-22
        15
        It is manifest that treason, most flagrant in character, has been committed.
        State of the Union Addresses
        16
        When Senator Lodge entered public life the flagrant spoils system was rampant.
        The Mirrors of Washington
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