blatantly
Example Sentences
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Roger: That was so blatantly offside, have linesman lost their natural ability to spot stuff like this since the introduction of VAR?
From BBC • Feb. 15, 2026
“I would like to see content creators not contribute to the hyper-normalization of things that are like blatantly horrific by acknowledging them.”
From Salon • Feb. 2, 2026
The result: The state looked hard at the practice, at the assisted-suicide physicians blatantly failing to follow the most minimal of safeguards, and then decided this year to “suspend” its monitoring program for the procedure.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 23, 2025
Numerous rights groups urged MPs to reject the law, saying adopting it "would blatantly violate Kazakhstan's international human rights commitments," the International Partnership for Human Rights said in a statement.
From Barron's • Nov. 12, 2025
But to be confronted with the prejudice so blatantly, there in that temple to intellectual excellence and rational thought, by something so mundane, so ridiculous, so universal as having to go to the bathroom...
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.