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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

... which great learning and acute logic have only betrayed the absence of the AEsthetic faculty. Warburton called Addison an empty superficial writer, destitute himself of an atom of Addison's taste for the beautiful; and Johnson is a flagrant instance that great powers of reasoning are more fatal to the works of imagination than ...

— Literary Character of Men of Genius - Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions • Isaac D'Israeli

... the receiver found himself almost at the discretion of the bandit, who could point him out as his habitual fence. Although this accusation might not be sustained by flagrant proofs, it was not the less very dangerous for Micou: so he had immediately executed the orders which Nicholas had sent him by a prisoner ...

— Mysteries of Paris, V3 • Eugene Sue

... wrists. To-day it had been as much as he could do to let poor little Katie kiss his hand. Better be vulgar with Byron than a noodle with Dorset! he bitterly reflected... Still, noodledom was nearer than vulgarity to dandyism. It was a less flagrant lapse. And he had over Byron this further advantage: his noodledom was not a matter of common knowledge; whereas Byron's vulgarity had ever needed to be in the glare of the footlights of Europe. The world would ...

— Zuleika Dobson - or, An Oxford Love Story • Max Beerbohm

... husband's tranquillity and peace of mind. One day, while sunning himself in the garden, he discovered that they had managed to detach a section of the lattice-work from a window, and were in the habit of sticking out their heads - awful discovery. Flying into a righteous rage at this act of flagrant disobedience, he seized a thick stick and sought their apartments, only to find the lattice-work skilfully replaced, and to be confronted with a general denial of what he had witnessed with his own eyes. This did not prevent them from all three getting ...

— Around the World on a Bicycle V1 • Thomas Stevens

... to take his apprentice before the justices and to demand condign punishment for such an act of flagrant rebellion; but a moment's reflection told him that Jack, at the end of his punishment, would return to his house, where his wife would take his part as usual, and the quarrels which had frequently arisen on his account would be more bitter ...

— The Bravest of the Brave - or, with Peterborough in Spain • G. A. Henty

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