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blatant
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    A blatant lie—  (source)
    blatant = obvious and without any attempt at hiding it
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    He was not always that blatant, though.  (source)
    blatant = obvious -- often without any attempt to hide bad behavior
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    Often they were exaggerated, or blatant lies, but it was a way of bringing body and soul back together, or a way of making new bodies for the souls to inhabit.  (source)
    blatant = obvious
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    Oh, I know he's a good fellow—you needn't frown—an excellent fellow, and I always mean to see more of him; but a hide-bound pedant for all that; an ignorant, blatant pedant.  (source)
    blatant = (of bad behavior) obvious without any attempt at hiding it
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    He undoubtedly felt it poor payment that the village should so blatantly disregard his candidate for one of its more important offices, especially since he regarded himself as the intellectual superior of most of the people around him.  (source)
    blatantly = obviously
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    He received Philip with a peculiar manner formed by the mingling of his natural blatancy with the subdued air proper to his calling.†  (source)
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    By dusk, the still summer air itself seemed to be quivering with anticipation, and as darkness spread like a curtain over the thousands of waiting wizards, the last vestiges of pretence disappeared: the Ministry seemed to have bowed to the inevitable and stopped fighting the signs of blatant magic now breaking out everywhere.  (source)
    blatant = obvious and without any attempt to hide it
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    Scarlett thought for an instant that if she had not flirted so blatantly with Stuart at that political speaking a year ago, he might have married India long ere this.  (source)
    blatantly = obviously
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    It was so childishly blatant, thought Rearden, so helplessly crude: the hint and the insult, offered together.  (source)
    blatant = obvious
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    The phrase not only clearly states the Illuminati objective, but it also blatantly contradicts the phrase beside it.  (source)
    blatantly = in an obvious manner
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    Scipio eventually intervened, but the incident pointed up the ease with which routine interactions could get out of hand, and also to his mind showed the need for the authority figures in Clarkston to take a more forgiving approach to situations that arose out of misunderstandings as opposed to blatant disregard for the law.  (source)
    blatant = obvious and without any attempt to hide it
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    They return the gesture, blatantly favoring this Evangeline.†  (source)
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    I will not be party to such blatant disrespect.†  (source)
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