All 3 Uses of
flagrant
in
Bleak House
- It is the most flagrant example of an abominable public vehicle that ever encumbered the face of the earth.†
Chpt 16-18 *
- …under him looking at one another and at the spectators as if nobody had ever heard that all over England the name in which they were assembled was a bitter jest, was held in universal horror, contempt, and indignation, was known for something so flagrant and bad that little short of a miracle could bring any good out of it to any one—this was so curious and selfcontradictory to me, who had no experience of it, that it was at first incredible, and I could not comprehend it.†
Chpt 22-24
- The truth is said to be that when Sir Leicester came down to Lincolnshire for good, Mr. Boythorn showed a manifest desire to abandon his right of way and do whatever Sir Leicester would, which Sir Leicester, conceiving to be a condescension to his illness or misfortune, took in such high dudgeon, and was so magnificently aggrieved by, that Mr. Boythorn found himself under the necessity of committing a flagrant trespass to restore his neighbour to himself.†
Chpt 66-67
Definition:
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(flagrant) obviously and outrageously bad (in the sense of violating what is normally considered proper)