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glaring
[ glair-ing ]
adjective
- shining with or reflecting a harshly bright or brilliant light.
Synonyms: blinding
- very conspicuous or obvious; flagrant:
several glaring errors in spelling.
- staring in a fiercely or angrily piercing manner.
- excessively showy or bright; garish.
glaring
/ ˈɡlɛərɪŋ /
adjective
- conspicuous
a glaring omission
- dazzling or garish
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Derived Forms
- ˈglaringness, noun
- ˈglaringly, adverb
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Other Words From
- glaring·ly adverb
- glaring·ness noun
- non·glaring adjective
- un·glaring adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Synonym Study
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Example Sentences
He had a fine eye for moral hypocrisy, and I know that a glaring example of it would not have escaped his notice.
Experts we spoke with said this is a glaring caveat that makes it difficult to create a national estimate from the results.
In the face of those statistics, these two non-indictments are glaring.
Now Oakley is probably a town no different than scores of others in most ways, with one glaring exception.
"At present, there are no Latinos in the leadership of the Department of Justice, it's a glaring absence," he said.
"Mind what I told you, Henery," he whispered very loud, glaring at Mr. Holmes.
Nor did we see aught of him during the next few minutes that we spent glaring at Bevans and the surrounding territory.
Pallid, Sir Lucien Pyne lay by the ebony chair glaring horribly upward.
One glaring color, or conspicuous article, would entirely mar the beauty of such a dress.
When the reform is directed at some glaring evil, something that makes us uncomfortable, then it goes through.
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