flagrant
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- s conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible
flagrant violation of human rights
- When its neighbour test fired a missile the aggrieved country said that this was a flagrant violation of the treaty between the two countries.
- Isn't that a flagrant perpetuation of negative stereotypes? You bet.
- In 1933, when Louis met and fell in love with 20-year-old Mary Nicol, he already had a family, but in flagrant disregard of the social norms of the time, he divorced.