Both Uses of
conspicuous
in
Babbitt
- Knew there was nothing doing, all the time!" and he ambled in to dance with Mrs. Orville Jones, and to avoid Louetta, virtuously and conspicuously.†
Chpt 23
- When he had telephoned, making it conspicuously authoritative and gruff and masculine, he looked doubtful, and sighed, "S'pose I'd better be—"†
Chpt 28 *
Definition:
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(conspicuous) easily noticed -- typically attracting attention such as by being large, flashy, or unusual