Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a flagrant manner; glaringly; notoriously.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a flagrant manner.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In a
flagrant manner
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in a flagrant manner
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Examples
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Bullwinkle was well known as a flagrantly homosexual moose although he did on occasion like to dip into a fish when he had a few too many drinks.
Did Sarah Palin just come out in support of the federal marriage amendment? Ann Althouse 2008
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Here I tap the blackboard in an authoritative manner and refer to a flagrantly unscientific survey of some male friends of mine which I conducted for the purposes of this article.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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Here I tap the blackboard in an authoritative manner and refer to a flagrantly unscientific survey of some male friends of mine which I conducted for the purposes of this article.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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Salt, a jacked-up espionage/action machine starring Angelina Jolie as a CIA superstar who may or may not be a Russian spy, is a movie I have no trouble calling flagrantly preposterous and over-the-top -- impossible to buy on any sober, adult level.
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In its ruling, the ASA said the Tshwane Metro Council had "a history of violations of the advertising code" and that the Council had so far "flagrantly" ignored the ASA's rulings.
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He looked a bright enough kid, but terms like 'flagrantly' probably didn't pop up in too many of his normal conversations.
Not the End of the World Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 1998
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Mr Bathurst, also acting for Ms Hellicar and Mr Brown, was in the NSW Supreme Court of Appeal on the second day of an appeal against last year's decision by Justice Ian Gzell that found 10 James Hardie defendants had "flagrantly" breached the corporations law when they approved a 2001 press release that said an asbestos fund was "fully funded".
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Mr Bathurst, also acting for Ms Hellicar and Mr Brown, was in the NSW Supreme Court of Appeal on the second day of an appeal against last year's decision by Justice Ian Gzell that found 10 James Hardie defendants had "flagrantly" breached the corporations law when they approved a 2001 press release that said an asbestos fund was "fully funded".
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Mr Bathurst, also acting for Ms Hellicar and Mr Brown, was in the NSW Supreme Court of Appeal on the second day of an appeal against last year's decision by Justice Ian Gzell that found 10 James Hardie defendants had "flagrantly" breached the corporations law when they approved a 2001 press release that said an asbestos fund was "fully funded".
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Mr Bathurst, also acting for Ms Hellicar and Mr Brown, was in the NSW Supreme Court of Appeal on the second day of an appeal against last year's decision by Justice Ian Gzell that found 10 James Hardie defendants had "flagrantly" breached the corporations law when they approved a 2001 press release that said an asbestos fund was "fully funded".
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