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View synonyms for blatantly

blatantly

[ bleyt-nt-lee ]

adverb

  1. in a shameless or conspicuous way; flagrantly:

    While many of those workers are joining unions, many others are being blatantly ripped off.

  2. in a way that is tastelessly loud, garish, or obvious:

    She dyes her hair blond, but leaves her dark brown roots blatantly visible.



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Example Sentences

But the entendre and innuendo permeates the rest of the series—often innocently, but sometimes far more blatantly.

The conservatives saw all of this as blatantly political activism.

Some were blatantly inferior, he said, at times with metal shavings and burrs in the threads.

That Made in Chelsea has a story editor listed on its end credits is no surprise; it is blatantly set up.

In my descriptions of the encounter, I kept the focus on how I spluttered in the face of a blatantly sexist remark.

Mackie, both at the college and elsewhere, was one of these blatantly popular chaps, and I myself didn't like him.

I became blatantly American again, and gloried in the fact that everywhere it was all Stars and Stripes.

Mrs. Ackroyde was far less artificial, and though her hair was dyed it did not proclaim the fact blatantly.

They want the practical, the blatantly obvious, spiced with a little emotion.

"Our money may have been made a little—well, blatantly," said Hal, flushing.

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