Both Uses of
flagrant
in
Don Quixote
- …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.†
Chpt 1.33-34
- The general bade him say what he pleased, but not to expect pardon for his flagrant offence.†
Chpt 2.63-64 *
Definition:
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(flagrant) obviously and outrageously bad (in the sense of violating what is normally considered proper)