Conspicuously definition

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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In a conspicuous manner; noticeably.
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Conspicuously Sentence Examples

  • Two objects stand out conspicuously in his policy.

  • 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.

  • A diet book was conspicuously in place on the kitchen counter.

  • It is also shown conspicuously in figures given by Henry.

  • It must be added that the pages on the Slavonic peoples and their relations to the empire are conspicuously insufficient; but it must be taken into account that it was not till many years after Gibbon's death that Slavonic history began to receive due attention, in consequence of the rise of competent scholars among the Sla y s themselves.

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