flagrancy
Example Sentences
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But five years after a razor-thin vote made alcohol sales legal, some residents were turned off by the restaurant’s flagrancy.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 20, 2019
Faced with such unbridled flagrancy, the US establishment has never been keen to accept the idea that Melville may just possibly have been gay.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 30, 2019
“These unprecedented figures appropriately reflect the conspiracy’s breathtaking flagrancy, its systemic reach and its significant impact,” Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch said.
From New York Times ● May 24, 2015
I recognize the flagrancy of such unchecked capitalism and still, I read these articles with tempered delight.
From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2013
Such flagrancy was the penalty of death, who had made himself too cheap in those days; nor were there any left with him who might have said, Honour my dead father, or dead master.
From The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay by Maurice Henry Hewlett
