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ADJECTIVE (1)

1. conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible;
- Example: "a crying shame"
- Example: "an egregious lie"
- Example: "flagrant violation of human rights"
- Example: "a glaring error"
- Example: "gross ineptitude"
- Example: "gross injustice"
- Example: "rank treachery"
[syn: crying(a), egregious, flagrant, glaring, gross, rank]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Flagrant \Fla"grant\, a. [L. flagrans, -antis, p. pr. of
   flagrate to burn, akin to Gr. ?: cf. F. flagrant. Cf.
   Flame, Phlox.]
   1. Flaming; inflamed; glowing; burning; ardent.
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            The beadle's lash still flagrant on their back.
                                                  --Prior.
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            A young man yet flagrant from the lash of the
            executioner or the beadle.            --De Quincey.
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            Flagrant desires and affections.      --Hooker.
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   2. Actually in preparation, execution, or performance;
      carried on hotly; raging.
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            A war the most powerful of the native tribes was
            flagrant.                             --Palfrey.
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   3. Flaming into notice; notorious; enormous; heinous;
      glaringly wicked.

   Syn: Atrocious; flagitious; glaring. See Atrocious.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

flagrant
    adj 1: conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible; "a
           crying shame"; "an egregious lie"; "flagrant violation of
           human rights"; "a glaring error"; "gross ineptitude";
           "gross injustice"; "rank treachery" [syn: crying(a),
           egregious, flagrant, glaring, gross, rank]