(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.
Flagrant
Definition:
(a.) Flaming; inflamed; glowing; burning; ardent.
(a.) Actually in preparation, execution, or performance; carried on hotly; raging.
(a.) Flaming into notice; notorious; enormous; heinous; glaringly wicked.
Example Sentences:
(1) But like so many of his colleagues in the Trump administration , Spicer has shown us how unconsciousness and stupidity can, however paradoxically, assume a Machiavellian function – how a flagrant example of gross insensitivity and flat-out odiousness can serve as yet another useful and convenient distraction.
(2) But in Vietnam many white soldiers flagrantly applauded his murder.
(3) Even if the bill were law and covered flagrant policy U-turns (it won't), the NUS strategy might not work.
(4) Save for eurobonds, there could be no more flagrant violation of the "no bail" clause of article 125.
(5) Parliament was asked to join an international coalition led by a US Democrat president, whose aim, a firm response to a flagrant breach of international law, was supported by most European nations and many Middle Eastern ones.
(6) It is about a flagrant disregard for the law by people arrogant enough to believe they can get away with it.
(7) Mitting upheld the ruling by the European court of human rights last year that Qatada would face a "flagrant denial of justice" if he were sent back to Jordan to face trial.
(8) The European court's decision in the el-Masri case is a clarion call for accountability for the flagrantly illegal CIA rendition program.
(9) Comments by Margot Wallström, the foreign minister, represented a “flagrant interference in internal affairs, which is not accepted in international conventions,” it added, according to an official statement carried by state news agency SPA.
(10) With the Spurs ahead by two with less than seven minutes on the clock, Parker uncharacteristically missed both free-throws awarded for a flagrant foul by Mario Chalmers, then Tim Duncan promptly squandered two more.
(11) The “flagrant attack was an attempt to undermine the efforts of the army as the only effective force capable with its allies … in fighting terrorism across its territory”, the statement said.
(12) This refers to isolated incidents only and does not excuse or protect those who flagrantly or repeatedly violate the College Alcohol Policy.
(13) The resolution condemned all Israeli settlements in occupied Palestinian territory as a “flagrant violation” of international law that imperilled a future two-state peace.
(14) This is further evidence that the EU needs to stand firm on Hungary’s flagrant disregard for European and international law.” People seeking asylum cannot currently be detained in the so-called “transit zones” along Hungary’s border with Serbia for more than four weeks, after which they must be allowed inside the country.
(15) In a statement, the ministry said the journalist had waited five days before converting his initial entry visa into a multi-entry visa – "a flagrant violation".
(16) The flagrant abuse of human rights – extrajudicial killings, disappearances, torture, forced exile, arbitrary arrest and imprisonment of journalists, political opponents and gay people – went on with impunity.
(17) That way we can free up the Court to concentrate on the worst, most flagrant human rights violations – and to challenge national courts when they clearly haven't followed the Convention.
(18) But a blend of opportunism on the right that flagrantly mischaracterises the issue, and spinelessness on the left that refuses to address it.
(19) Syrian and Russian forces have been deliberately attacking health facilities in flagrant violation of international humanitarian law.
(20) This inappropriate use of statistics represents a flagrant disregard of the scientific method of problem solving.