Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - flagrant
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You can use flagrant to describe an action, situation, or someone’s behaviour that you find extremely bad or shocking in a very obvious way. The judge called the decision ‘a flagrant violation of international law’... = blatant ADJ: ADJ n c darkgreen]disapproval • flagrantly It is a situation where basic human rights are being flagrantly abused. = blatantly ADV: usu ADV with v, also ADV adj
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adjective Etymology: Latin ~-, flagrans, present participle of flagrare to burn — more at black Date: 1513 1. archaic fiery hot ; burning 2. conspicuously offensive ~ errors; especially so obviously inconsistent with what is right or proper as to appear to be a flouting of law or morality ~ violations of human rights • ~ly adverb Synonyms: ~, glaring, gross, rank mean conspicuously bad or objectionable. ~ applies usually to offenses or errors so bad that they can neither escape notice nor be condoned ~ abuse of the office of president. glaring implies painful or damaging obtrusiveness of something that is conspicuously wrong, faulty, or improper glaring errors. gross implies the exceeding of reasonable or excusable limits gross carelessness. rank applies to what is openly and extremely objectionable and utterly condemned rank heresy. ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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adj. (of an offence or an offender) glaring; notorious; scandalous. Derivatives flagrancy n. flagrantly adv. Etymology: F flagrant or L flagrant- part. stem of flagrare blaze ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
3.
adj. 1) ужасающий, вопиющий; огромный; позорный 2) ужасный, страшный (о преступнике и т.п.) Syn: glaring, gross, rank Ant: implicit, mild, slight, venial ...Англо-русский словарь
4.
~ adj flagrant abuse/violation etc a flagrant action is shocking because it is done in a way that is easily noticed and shows no respect for laws, truth etc (flagrant disregard for human rights) - flagrantly adv ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
5.
- 15c., "resplendant," from L. flagrantem (nom. flagrans) "burning," prp. of flagrare "to burn," from PIE *bhleg-. Sense of "glaringly offensive" first recorded 1706, probably from common legalese phrase in flagrante delicto "red-handed," lit. "with the crime still blazing." ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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