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    flagrant


    1. slaughtered on the spot for such a flagrant breech of the


    2. There had been little flogging, and that only in flagrant cases; and in consequence of the respect generated by the white officers, there had been no desertion, and no disaffection among the thousands of men of various tribes employed as bearers, and in other capacities


    3. The claim that the bills being considered will reduce our health costs is just a flagrant lie


    4. The source reported the major will undoubtedly face a court-martial for his flagrant violation of the Rules of Engagement and unprovoked attack against a peaceful ship


    5. 5 In fact, this was so flagrant that the people finally reacted and held a recall election of the governor and elected a new one, but the ‘liberal’ legislature remains


    6. In spite of a few examples of some large corporations caught in questionable accounting practices, many corporate accounting methods arguably are less flagrant or scandalous than methods used in government agencies


    7. This does not mean that Inner Circle Initiate goes through life murdering, raping and pillaging in flagrant disregard for the law (you’ll be relieved to hear)


    8. But you can image the ribbing I got from my colleagues about this rather flagrant absentmindedness


    9. Antioch had half a million inhabitants; it was the third city of the empire in size and the first in wickedness and flagrant immorality


    10. And I declare to all of you that the Father has opened the doors of the heavenly kingdom to all who have the faith to enter, and no man or association of men can close those doors even to the most humble soul or supposedly most flagrant sinner on earth if such sincerely seek an entrance

    11. He knew his active lifestyle had been flagrant and obvious


    12. Lady Jane claimed he was a mentally tormented man, quite bold and flagrant with his advances, who was probably capable of doing anything necessary to escape the clutches of his wife’s vindictiveness and wickedness


    13. Needless to say, the ruling elite bitterly resented this flagrant


    14. Ingrid was frankly becoming frustrated to have to constantly risk the lives of her pilots in order to compensate for the tactical incompetence of too many Army commanders and for the flagrant lack of combativeness in the frontlines of many American soldiers


    15. ‘’This is in fact a flagrant violation of the congressional interdiction about using women as ground combat troops, Eugene


    16. Show no intent to injure or a flagrant reckless disregard for safety, and 2


    17. A lesser pilot might have stopped at the five year suspension threshold, but you, Miss Maxwell, have raised the bar for flagrant violation of the F


    18. ments in a flagrant yet formal manner


    19. “Yeah, and there are flagrant health code violations,” Shelby said


    20. ‘Impeachment is the correct course of action for this flagrant abuse of public money’

    21. Abbot Bradford did this at his own bidding and in flagrant disregard for the injunction of our lord bishop


    22. Vietnam is to end in a stalemate,’ to be a flagrant violation, expressing his


    23. The resemblance was flagrant


    24. When a month went by and his behavior was becoming more flagrant, Kate decided that something had to be done


    25. Infuriated by this flagrant display of cowardice the sun gave chase while haranguing:


    26. It was an old player piano and, of course, a nice young lady wearing her undergarments in a flagrant yet formal manner


    27. The inhabitants of the antediluvian world, who, having been disobedient, and convicted of the most flagrant


    28. and convicted of the most flagrant transgressions against God, were sentenced by his just law to


    29. Her coy erotic sensuality wouldn’t be so flagrant, when he got done with her though


    30. The inhabitants of the antediluvian world, who, having been disobedient, and convicted of the most flagrant transgressions against God, were sentenced by his just law to destruction

    31. Those who harm believing men and believing women, for acts they did not commit, bear the burden of perjury and a flagrant sin


    32. Now and then whole nations cry aloud for vengeance on flagrant offenders, as if conscious that the new legislative idea of universal beneficence did not correspond with the realities of the moral world


    33. He will lie--that is, the man who is a _special case_, the incognito, and he will lie well, in the cleverest fashion; you might think he would triumph and enjoy the fruits of his wit, but at the most interesting, the most flagrant moment he will faint


    34. The words of Anselmo struck Lothario with astonishment, unable as he was to conjecture the purport of such a lengthy preamble; and though be strove to imagine what desire it could be that so troubled his friend, his conjectures were all far from the truth, and to relieve the anxiety which this perplexity was causing him, he told him he was doing a flagrant injustice to their great friendship in seeking circuitous methods of confiding to him his most hidden thoughts, for he well knew he might reckon upon his counsel in diverting them, or his help in carrying them into effect


    35. What heart could be so hard as not to be softened by these words, at any rate so far as to listen to what the unhappy youth had to say? The general bade him say what he pleased, but not to expect pardon for his flagrant offence


    36. "The tender mother cannot _lawfully_ snatch from the gripe of the gambling spendthrift, or beastly drunkard, unmindful of his offspring, the fortune which falls to her by chance; or (so flagrant is the injustice) what she earns by her own


    37. to provoke a red colour into them, which I knew, as well by the flagrant


    38. He felt personally challenged by her rejection; he imagined that her flagrant behavior was an unforgivable breach of their Catholic faith


    39. The most flagrant thief was the cook, a ringlet-haired civilian known as Curley


    40. Then, springing eagerly towards me, he covered all those naked parts with a fond profusion of kisses; and now, taking hold of the rod, rather wantoned with me, in gentle inflictions on those tender trembling masses of my flesh behind, than in any way hurt them, till by degrees, he began to tingle them with smarter lashes, so as to provoke a red colour into them, which I knew, as well by the flagrant glow I felt there, as by his telling me, they now emulated the native roses of my other cheeks

    41. But such flagrant disregard for orders on Wyrshym’s part argues that this is something he’s been thinking about for some time, exactly as Father Ahndair warned us he might be


    42. He will lie— that is, the man who is a special case, the incognito, and he will lie well, in the cleverest fashion; you might think he would triumph and enjoy the fruits of his wit, but at the most interesting, the most flagrant moment he will faint


    43. ’s own ardor or fighting spirit had gotten the best of him and he’d burst upon her and laid her out, in flagrant violation of the protocols of two-hand touch; after she’d lain on her back on the sand with the wind knocked out of her and her hair whipping around her head and L


    44. Goby, who died apparently of a heart-disease not very clearly expressed in the symptoms, too daringly asked leave of her relatives to open the body, and thus gave an offence quickly spreading beyond Parley Street, where that lady had long resided on an income such as made this association of her body with the victims of Burke and Hare a flagrant insult to her memory


    45. Flagrant Example of Padded Income Account


    46. Perhaps the most flagrant instance of this kind that has come to our knowledge occurred in the 1929–1930 reports of Park and Tilford, Inc


    47. * About a half century ago the “miracles” were often accompanied by flagrant manipulation, misleading corporate reporting, outrageous capitalization structures, and other semifraudulent financial practices


    48. No quarter, war to the death! a pretty woman is a casus belli; a pretty woman is flagrant misdemeanor


    49. Now, for an unfortunate man in his position, this convent was both the safest and the most dangerous of places; the most dangerous, because, as no men might enter there, if he were discovered, it was a flagrant offence, and Jean Valjean would find but one step intervening between the convent and prison; the safest, because, if he could manage to get himself accepted there and remain there, who would ever seek him in such a place? To dwell in an impossible place was safety


    50. A decapitated Alexis, a poignarded Peter, a strangled Paul, another Paul crushed flat with kicks, divers Ivans strangled, with their throats cut, numerous Nicholases and Basils poisoned, all this indicates that the palace of the Emperors of Russia is in a condition of flagrant insalubrity















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    Synonyms for "flagrant"

    crying egregious flagrant glaring gross rank outrageous grievous heinous shameful

    "flagrant" definitions

    conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible