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Definition of flagrant :
1. Actually in preparation, execution, or performance; carried on hotly; raging.
2. Flaming into notice; notorious; enormous; heinous; glaringly wicked.
3. Flaming; inflamed; glowing; burning; ardent.
Synonyms:
gross, study at outrageous, pronounced, unashamed, uninhibited, bald-faced, egregious, notorious, capital, striking, obvious, barefaced, arrant, crying, unabashed, good, conspicuous, patent, rank
flagrant (part of speech: adjective)
ostentatious (part of speech: adjective)
forced, histrionic, flamboyant, snazzy, flaunting, gaudy, boastful, opulent, exhibitionistic, vain, affected, garish, dashing, dramatic, splashy, rakish, formal, stilted, grandiose, ostentatious, fussy, pompous, grandiloquent, blatant, flourishing, flashy, sensational, shameless, ornate, jaunty, showy
insolent (part of speech: adjective)
callous, saucy, arrogant, brash, rude, discourteous, impolite, cheeky, outrageous, defiant, outspoken, brazen, disrespectful, candid, audacious, insolent, impertinent, irreverent, mouthy, presumptuous, insubordinate, contemptuous, sacrilegious, bold, derisive, sarcastic
Usage examples:
- This flagrant violation of rules and order had taken place several times, and, so far, thanks to Seabrooke's heavy slumbers, had not yet been discovered. - "Bessie Bradford's Prize", Joanna H. Mathews.
- Indeed, under this kind of legislation, the most flagrant wrongs might be committed and whole classes of people deprived, not only of their political, but of their civil rights. - "Personal Reminiscences of Early Days in California with Other Sketches; To Which Is Added the Story of His Attempted Assassination by a Former Associate on the Supreme Bench of the State", Stephen Field; George C. Gorham.
- I have been guilty toward you all this time of a sort of fraud, or at least of a flagrant suppression of the truth, which ought not to be kept up a moment longer. - "Equality", Edward Bellamy.