flagrant

Example Sentences

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“The great thing about Charles is that he has a great love of really quite a lot of causes that are a little bit unfashionable,” Lloyd Webber said, in a flagrant understatement.

From Washington Post

Martin says he has "never seen such a flagrant waste of taxpayer resources as in this case".

From BBC

Trailing by 18 to the West’s top team within just the first quarter, the Clippers pulled within four in the third quarter, only for a flagrant foul begin a disastrous stretch.

From Los Angeles Times

They even stopped play in the first quarter to check for a flagrant when a Bear collided with Pili and fell hard to the court but ruled it a common foul.

From Seattle Times

Some schools tweaked rules to prevent the most flagrant types of misconduct, but the outsize roles of wealth, class and race — which were thrust into public view in shocking plainness — loom as large as ever.

From Seattle Times