flagrant

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Smith was also fined $50,000 by the league for what it called a flagrant violation of player safety rules.

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  1. adjective 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. adjective Obsolete Flaming; blazing.
  3. Syntax Note
    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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  • His conduct about the Press in India has been flagrant, and since his departure Adams has sent home the editor of the Calcutta paper, who has been bullying them for the last five years, and whom Lord Hastings has never had the courage to resist, but, on the contrary, has frequently defended him against his own colleagues in council. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Memoirs of the Court of George IV., Vol. I, by The Duke of Buckingham and Chandos
  • But the most flagrant, act, and beyond all others characteristic of his indomitable tenacity of will, overleaping all the limitations of precedent and the constitution, was his removal, on his own responsibility, of the deposits from the Bank of the United States. —  Memoir of the Life of John Quincy Adams.
  • It was elected while the war was flagrant, and every member was chosen upon the issues involved in the continuance of the struggle. —  Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail
  • And who would guarantee that another time when the case will be perhaps less flagrant, the crime more obscure, the aggressor less cynical, the world will tremble and rise in arms Moreover, is it always possible to determine the responsibility for war's origin? —  Fighting France
  • Still more flagrant is the case of Wihtgar, who conquered the Isle of Wight, and was buried at Wihtgarasbyrig, or Carisbrooke. —  Early Britain Anglo-Saxon Britain
 

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heinous ·  blatant ·  unpardonable ·  intentional ·  gross ·  scandalous ·  grossest ·  egregious ·  wilful ·  palpable ·  deliberate ·  manifest
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Latin flagrāns, flagrant-, present participle of flagrāre, to burn; see bhel-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Old French flagrant, French flagrant = Spanish flagrante = Portuguese flagrante, fragante = Italian flagrante, from Latin flagran(t-)s, burning, present participle of flagrare, burn, √*flag = Greek φλέγειν, burn, = Sanskritbhrāj, shine brightly, prob. akin to Anglo-Saxon beorht, English bright, etc.: see bright, and cf. flame, phlegm, phlox, fulgent, etc., from the same ult. root. Cf. conflagrant, etc.
 

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