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blatantly

[bleyt-nt]

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adjective

brazenly obvious; flagrant: a blatant error in simple addition; a blatant lie.

offensively noisy or loud; clamorous: blatant radios.

tastelessly conspicuous: the blatant colors of the dress.

Origin:
coined by Spenser in 1596; compare Latin blatīre to babble, prate, blaterāre to talk foolishly, babble

Related forms

bla·tan·cy, noun

bla·tant·ly, adverb

Can be confused: blatant, flagrant (see synonym note at flagrant).

Synonyms
1. unmistakable, overt, undeniable, obtrusive.

Antonyms
1. subtle, hidden, inconspicuous.

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Example Sentences

One after the other, the motorists were caught blatantly violating the law.

Yet, installing unelected technocrats in their place is such a blatantly political move that it's almost apolitical.

Geo's lack of fact checking and blatantly inaccurate mapping.

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One after the other, the motorists were caught blatantly violating the law.

Yet, installing unelected technocrats in their place is such a blatantly political move that it's almost apolitical.

Geo's lack of fact checking and blatantly inaccurate mapping.

In other words, this theory is pseudoscience that blatantly disregards its social impact.

She also liked how blatantly feminine it looks with its ruffled edges and show-off colors.

Delaware blatantly walked into traffic on this one, but his sense of justice is to be admired.

Those are the ones blatantly aimed at the tear ducts.

Much of it hidden and some of it blatantly obvious eg.

But installing unelected technocrats in their place is such a blatantly political move that it's almost apolitical.

Violating the bounds of a relationship and a social contract is blatantly dishonest.

And they're doing so with a blatantly exploitive promotional video.

One student blatantly admitted he was in college only because he felt the degree would look good on paper.

Moreover, the tone of some of the overseers is blatantly aggressive.

It's blatantly self-serving to support the status quo.

How such a blatantly corrupt official could hold office for this long is bothersome.

The stolen-generation removals were based partly on welfare, but more blatantly on race.

Others, it has to be said, have signed and yet blatantly ignore the rules.

It is blatantly unprofessional journalism to use such a degrading tone.

The author had, in a few cases, blatantly plagiarized my own work.

But the media should properly represent facts/physics with accuracy where it is blatantly wrong or incredulous.

But it is also because for me to mock such a grand historical claim would be blatantly hypocritical.

The personal survey is blatantly skewed to filter out the distinctive re-definition factor.

Conceptually ambitious and blatantly deductive, it begged trouble from all quarters.

For a variety of practical reasons, legal sanctions promise little protection against blatantly false statements.

Changes to the election law blatantly favour the president's party.

The idea that genes or ideas are patentable is blatantly ridiculous.

Many of their firms paid them lower base salaries than their male equivalents, blatantly yanked away clients and.

We divide them between us and toss the blatantly unqualified.

Some three-quarters of voters see it as blatantly political.

Hevesi's desire to hire a minority firm, the wording was blatantly insensitive.

To the contrary, its users claim that the status quo is blatantly unfair.

Although the apology is untimely overdue and blatantly pointless.

Tokyo summer togs blatantly advertise summer frolics and one-night-stands, but refuse to deliver.

It is untenable that this article would so blatantly ignores the real victims here.

And films that lure the lunch-box set never lack for blatantly commercial elements.

While every attempt to bring sanity into the discussion is laudable, some of your statements are blatantly wrong.

Gallagher appropriates are so blatantly and cruelly revealing by themselves that you almost wish she had displayed them without.

No one likes onerous taxes, but his feelings about them are blatantly pathological.

Duke has recently minimized the blatantly racist and anti-Semitic rantings that once splashed across the pages of his.

The comments that got her fired were blatantly objectionable.

Their lack of experience with aircraft development was blatantly obvious.

In other words, the rich world should focus on getting rid of blatantly foolish and costly policies.

But these steps are also blatantly unjust, unreasoned and undefended.

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World English Dictionary

blatant (ˈbleɪt^ənt)

—*adj*
1.	glaringly conspicuous or obvious: a blatant lie
2.	offensively noticeable: blatant disregard for a person's feelings
3.	offensively noisy

[C16: coined by Edmund Spenser; probably influenced by Latin blatīre to babble; compare Middle Low German pladderen]

'blatancy

—n

'blatantly

—*adv*

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Word Origin & History

blatant

1596, in blatant beast, coined by Edmund Spenser in "The Faerie Queen" to describe a thousand-tongued monster representing slander; probably suggested by L. blatire "to babble." It entered general use 1650s, as "noisy in an offensive and vulgar way;" the sense of "obvious, glaringly conspicuous" is from

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