Adverb
(comparative more conspicuously, superlative most conspicuously)
- In a conspicuous manner; noticeably.
Origin
conspicuous + -ly
conspicuously
adverb
The definition of conspicuously is something done openly, obviously or in a matter designed to be noticed and get attention.
When you make sure that everyone is watching you as you go to the cookie jar and take a cookie, this is an example of a time when you conspicuously take a cookie.
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Sentence Examples
- Two objects stand out conspicuously in his policy.
- It is also shown conspicuously in figures given by Henry.
- He was as conspicuously deficient in the statesmanship as he was in the oratorical genius of such men as Flood, Plunket or Grattan.
- On the Amazons and in other parts of South America there are butterflies of the group Ithomiinae which are distasteful and have all the characters of specially protected species, being conspicuously coloured, slow of flight, careless of exposure and abundant in individuals.
- Is not conspicuously uplifted, being plateau, rather than mountain.
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