blatant
completely obvious and offensively conspicuous
Word origin: Coined by the poet Spenser, possibly from Latin blatire, to babble.
Blatant in a sentence
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The referee ignored a blatant foul right in front of him.
The report documented a blatant disregard for safety codes that no inspector could have missed.
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Verbal · Sentence Equivalence
The naturalist warned that the alpine bloom was blank, a spectacle of color that would vanish within days of the thaw, leaving no trace by midsummer.
Using “blatant” well
Blatant stresses offensive obviousness, often of wrongdoing. Distinguish it from flagrant, which adds the sense of being shockingly bad, and from latent, an unrelated look-alike meaning hidden.
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