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The word of the day is ‘flagrant’.
The word is an adjective, i.e., it adds more information about the noun or sentence.
No, the word is an adjective. Therefore, it does not have a past form.
It means:
1. Flaunting
2. Blatant
3. Without shame
4. Conspicuously or obviously offensive.
1. He realized that his conduct was too flagrant to admit of defence, so he attempted none.
2. It is painfully necessary to avoid open and flagrant scandal.
3. They ended their sinful career by open and flagrant mutiny and were shot for it.
4. Now, however, the wrong ways so flagrant that she resolved to speak to her son.
5. I was a little scandalised at this flagrant tribute to the enemy and said so.
Some synonyms of today’s word are:
atrocious, bold, brazen, conspicuous, disgraceful, egregious, glaring, heinous, notorious, outrageous, shameful, shameless, arrant, awful, bare-faced, dreadful, flagitous, flaming, flashy, grody, immodest, infamous, ostentatious, scandalous, stick out like a sore thumb, wicked, blatant, overt, barefaced, audacious, brass-necked, undisguised, unconcealed, patent, manifest, palpable, reprehensible, iniquitous, villainous, arrant, etc.
concealed, good, hidden, magnificent, meek, obscure, respectable, shy, timid, wonderful, disguised, mild, moral, restrained, secret, obtrusive, slight
Quotation:
If the nose has become a deeply disillusioned and grief-stricken organ in the modern world, then what of the ear? The poor little ear – such an innocent, intelligent and sensitive creature; in these times of such flagrant sonic brutality, the sense within the ear has much to contend with.
Michael Leunig
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