What's the difference between bawl and blatant?

Bawl


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To cry out with a loud, full sound; to cry with vehemence, as in calling or exultation; to shout; to vociferate.
  • (v. i.) To cry loudly, as a child from pain or vexation.
  • (v. t.) To proclaim with a loud voice, or by outcry, as a hawker or town-crier does.
  • (n.) A loud, prolonged cry; an outcry.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) All that shouting and bawling from two of News Corporation's most senior executives?
  • (2) "Man, I bawl like a baby every time I listen to this song," writes one YouTube commenter of the track Walk In The Park.
  • (3) !” bawled at me when, as a new cabbie, I had the temerity to ask one of my betters to repeat himself.
  • (4) "I have been watching the the USMNT for the better part of 20 years and it is always the same, in any big game where they need a result or where they are the favorites they play with both hands placed firmly around their necks," bawls Brian Goldych.
  • (5) The sensitive, rawer moments where fictional Julie’s life intersects with Grayson’s are inevitable given the honesty of his work, but what’s most impressive are when the details mirror the real-life Julies, as more than one bawls her mascaraed eyes out with familiarity when the group step inside.
  • (6) Firstly, Parker lost possession after going down in midfield and, as he bawled for a free-kick, Adnan Januzaj scampered away with the ball before passing to Van Persie, who, again with no Fulham defenders in attendance, smashed into the net from 15 yards out.
  • (7) As well as stopping the proceedings at regular intervals to tell MPs to calm down, he is now considering naming individual MPs who bawl and barrack during PMQs, hoping that being named and shamed by their local media will provide a useful disincentive.
  • (8) But through the bawling, a few useful things were got on the record.
  • (9) Cause he's also done that in the past," bawls Piers Atkinson.
  • (10) Yvette Cooper is the only candidate who looks like a prime minister | Richard Leese Read more In stark terms, he says Labour’s consideration of Corbyn must stop if it wants to be a serious party of power rather than just a “party of protest that marches, campaigns, backs strikes, calls for ministerial resignations, more money for every cause going, shouts and bawls and fingerjabs”.
  • (11) "The close proximity is highly relevant when you come to consider how openly these Iraqis were abused and how the shouting, bawling, screaming from that facility must have been heard by numerous soldiers and officers in that camp and yet no one appears to have raised it as a concern."
  • (12) This year public sector workers are turning up there to bawl him out over pensions.
  • (13) It’s all breastfeeding and dirty bums and bawling for hours and hours.
  • (14) "It doesn't greatly advance the feminist cause to allow MPs to cart their bawling babies through the lobby," she said.
  • (15) I rang my friend, my American editor and bawled and bawled, and she told me to write it all down, and I wrote for two hours.
  • (16) Might it pander to self-absorption, and encourage people to behave like bawling narcissists?
  • (17) And when I'd turn to them and see they were grinning from ear-to-ear, or they were bawling their eyes out, I knew we had something special."
  • (18) Standing to be mounted, bawling, and attempting to mount were the three criteria used for determining the presence of estrus.
  • (19) I think that deserves a round of applause.” A man called Michael says he doesn’t need a microphone and bawls his question in broadest Lancashire.
  • (20) Another fan further down the row bawled his eyes out as he bellowed to the heavens.

Blatant


Definition:

  • (a.) Bellowing, as a calf; bawling; brawling; clamoring; disagreeably clamorous; sounding loudly and harshly.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "The proposed 'reform' is designed to legitimise this blatantly unfair, police state practice, while leaving the rest of the criminal procedure law as misleading decoration," said Professor Jerome Cohen, an expert on China at New York University's School of Law.
  • (2) So when did audiences become so deferential to a release strategy blatantly motivated by naked financial gain?
  • (3) There's no doubt Twitter is, for those who are into that kind of thing, a first-class social networking medium (the proof: pretty much every other social networking site, including Facebook, has tried to buy it and, having failed, adopted a whole raft of blatantly Twitter-like features of their own).
  • (4) In the first debate, Obama left Romney's blatantly false assertions and attacks go unchecked.
  • (5) While Chinese media have not spelt out Zhou's woes explicitly, the hints have grown more blatant by the month, with some identifying him via his family relationships.
  • (6) "It is a blatant attempt to cover up the truth about Labour's cuts."
  • (7) Its coverage was so vindictive and blatantly unfair that it succeeded in winning sympathy for the prime minister, not an easy thing to do these days.
  • (8) Updated at 4.58pm BST 4.46pm BST Half time: Shakhter 1-0 Celtic 45 mins Mouyokolo does the most blatant of bodychecks on Finonchenko around the half-way line and gets his name in the yellow book for his troubles.
  • (9) MPs said the group's decision to target some of the UK's most prominent Muslim communities was a blatant attempt to provoke mayhem and disorder.
  • (10) Pro-government activists blatantly threatened people and newspaper offices were attacked.
  • (11) Other transactions are more blatantly criminal: Eritreans, who with Syrians and Afghans make up the majority of migrants attempting to cross the Mediterranean, are often driven “for free” from Khartoum in Sudan to Ajdabiya on the Libyan coast, where they are locked up and tortured until relatives pay a ransom.
  • (12) "This was a blatant and outrageous attempt to suborn a member of parliament," said Mr Galloway.
  • (13) He says the paper also falsely alleged that he "has told blatant lies in an attempt to cover up his corrupt dealings" with Misick.
  • (14) Triggs appeared before a Senate estimates committee hearing on Tuesday for the first time since the prime minister, Tony Abbott, argued the commission’s inquiry into children in detention was a “blatantly partisan, politicised exercise” or a “stitch-up” against the Coalition government.
  • (15) Ing concedes she is hardly a fan of a man she accuses of a "blatant and obscene lack of ethics", but rejects the accusation that the film is anti-Thaksin propaganda: her use of red, for instance, was decided long before it became associated with his redshirts .
  • (16) It was claimed that this emphasis on troops from the "new Commonwealth" was intended to promote "community cohesion" in the UK – leading to accusations in Australia of "blatant politicisation".
  • (17) Blatant carelessness, misuse or improper maintenance of equipment, and intoxication are analyzed as contributory factors.
  • (18) Three minutes later a dithering David Edgar allowed Callum Wilson to bully him out of possession before blatantly tugging his shirt.
  • (19) Blount gets them three on first down, the Patriots look like they're trying to take my advice here, and on second down Brady throws to (okay I'm going to blatantly cut-and-paste this one) Michael Hoomananawuni for15 yards.
  • (20) They ranged from the “hmm” to the blatant to the eye-wateringly awful: ‘Hair twirling’ I recall once the suggestion that I ask a question of another team, in a very airy and innocent manner, hair-twirling and all, to try and get a more favourable answer than previously.