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adjective

Flagrant adj.

Flaming; inflamed; glowing; burning; ardent. "The beadle's lash still flagrant on their back." "A young man yet flagrant from the lash of the executioner or the beadle." "Flagrant desires and affections."

Actually in preparation, execution, or performance; carried on hotly; raging. "A war the most powerful of the native tribes was flagrant."

Flaming into notice; notorious; enormous; heinous; glaringly wicked.

Synonyms: Atrocious; flagitious; glaring. See Atrocious.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Flagrant" Quotes from Famous Books

... about the lobby, in flagrant disobedience to orders. Rebuking his nephew with a frown, he commanded the lieutenant to make his way round to the stage and see that the curtain was dropped ...

— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith

... never been shot at all!" shouted the Colonel. "It's flat, flagrant disobedience! I've known a man broke for less, d——d sight less. They're mocking me, I tell you, Mutman! They're ...

— The Works of Rudyard Kipling One Volume Edition • Rudyard Kipling

... John and Samuel Browne, presumed to hold a separate service with a small company, using the Prayer Book. Thereupon the hot-headed Endicott arrested them, put them on shipboard, and sent them back to England. This conduct of Endicott's was a flagrant aggression on vested rights, since the Brownes appear in the charter as original promoters of the colony, and were sent to Massachusetts by the company in the high capacity of assistants or councillors to Endicott himself. The ...

— England in America, 1580-1652 • Lyon Gardiner Tyler

... rules are associated sentiments, the result of the Divine, or other, command to obey the rules. It is a gross and flagrant error to talk of substituting calculation for sentiment; this is to oppose the rudder to the sail. Sentiment without calculation were capricious; calculation ...

— Moral Science; A Compendium of Ethics • Alexander Bain

... liver and onions, which was in flagrant defiance of Rule Four which mentioned cabbage, onions and fried fish as undesirable foodstuffs. Outside, the palm leaves were dripping in the night fog that had swept soggily in from the ocean. Her mother was trying to collect a gas bill from the dressmaker down the hall, who protested ...

— The Quirt • B.M. Bower

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