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flagrancy

/fley-gruhnt/US // ˈfleɪ grənt //UK // (ˈfleɪɡrənt) //

旗帜性,旗帜性的,旗语,旗帜

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : shockingly noticeable or evident; obvious; glaring: a flagrant error.
    • : notorious; scandalous: a flagrant crime; a flagrant offender.
    • : Archaic. blazing, burning, or glowing.

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Examples

  • When his passion should subside, would he not perceive the flagrancy of his injustice, and hasten to atone for it?

  • The young wife perceived that it would be impossible to arouse him to any just realization of the flagrancy of his fault.

  • The principal cause of the Reformation was the general corruption of the Church and the flagrancy of its oppression.

  • There is still very much to be done there, but the former flagrancy of vice has been abolished.

  • And yet how often have the ludicrousness and the flagrancy been repeated, with far less temptation!