What's the difference between flagrant and glaring?

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.

Glaring


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Glare
  • (a.) Clear; notorious; open and bold; barefaced; as, a glaring crime.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) What is shocking is the number of them on NGO boards, and the glaring absence of so many other kinds of expertise.
  • (2) The Heliomat film viewer offers impressive reproductions of 100 mm film on a glare-free glass screen.
  • (3) On the other hand, the greater diastolic response and appearance of VES in night driving subgroups during glare suggest a greater sensitivity to the glare pressor test in these subjects.
  • (4) "I wear orange tinted glasses for cricket which help reduce glare and also seem to enhance the ball in slightly less than impressive light.
  • (5) When Donald Trump takes the Japanese prime minister , Shinzo Abe, to his resort at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, this weekend, eyebrows will rise – and not just because of the glaring conflict of interest in hosting a state visit at a flagship Trump property.
  • (6) In the course of this teamwork the deficiencies and drawbacks of hospitalisation legislation have become glaringly evident.
  • (7) The glaring inconsistency now so prevalent in the management of children must be countered by clear positive guidelines and by 'unifying principles' which are embodied in legislation.
  • (8) "Every bit of good news sends that team into decline," he said as he glared at the opposition leader "but I can tell him the good news is going to keep coming."
  • (9) Summer targets Our squad has the same glaring gaps as always.
  • (10) The most glaring outcome is that all the houses pay less tax in real terms today than they did in local rates a third of a century ago.
  • (11) Night and day glare sensitivity were each associated only with increased severity of posterior subcapsular cataracts (P less than or equal to 0.003) and with decreased visual acuity (P less than 0.001).
  • (12) With Altidore's lack of movement glaringly apparent, the crowd agitated for Steven Fletcher's liberation from the bench and, taking the hint, Sunderland's manager threw him on.
  • (13) Increased glare sensitivity diminishing the ability to drive under mesopic conditions can be due to scattered light produced by artificial lenses.
  • (14) But given its popularity, it is little wonder that negotiating "Facebook divorce" status updates has become another unhappy event for failed romances, over when to launch the site's broken-heart icon out into the glare of the world's news feed.
  • (15) Ofsted said its inspectors had raised "glaringly serious" problems in Haringey's child protection regime with Shoesmith, despite her insistence that they were "never made clear" to her before the publication of the inspectors' report.
  • (16) As for Countryfile, Hunt personally oversaw the revamp: "Yes, we did change the presenting line-up, editorially, moving it from daytime to the glare of peak time.
  • (17) LogMAR visual acuity, contrast sensitivity and glare sensitivity measurements were made on 39 eyes of 18 cataractous subjects and compared against normative data.
  • (18) And it's that grizzly commitment to glaring and bone-crunching that's made him so internationally bankable.
  • (19) I can think of hordes of politicians who look worse and "weirder", with wet little pouty-mouths, strange shiny skin, mad glaring eyes, deathly pale demeanour, blank gaze and an unhealthy quantity of fat (I can't name them, because it's rude to make personal remarks), and I don't hear anyone calling them "weird", or mocking their looks, except for the odd bold cartoonist, but when it comes to Miliband , it's be-as-rude-as-you-like time.
  • (20) Athlete Oscar Pistorius will be back in the glare of the world's media when his murder trial resumes on Monday but, in an unorthodox legal move, he will not be the first witness for his own defence.