The Only Use of
flagrant
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1984 by Orwell
- They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality, because they never fully grasped the enormity of what was demanded of them, and were not sufficiently interested in public events to notice what was happening.†
p. 156..7
Definition:
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(flagrant) obviously and outrageously bad (in the sense of violating what is normally considered proper)