Flagrant Definition

flāgrənt
adjective
Glaringly bad; notorious; outrageous.
Webster's New World
Flaming; blazing.
Webster's New World
The definition of flagrant is something that is obviously wrong or offensive in some way.
An example of flagrant defiance is when you are told you cannot have one cookie and you immediately and defiantly go and take three right in front of the person who said no.
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(obsolete) Common misspelling of fragrant.

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Origin of Flagrant

  • From Middle French flagrant, from Latin flagrantem, present participle of flagrare (“blaze, burn”). More at black.

    From Wiktionary

  • Latin flagrāns flagrant- present participle of flagrāre to burn bhel-1 in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin frāgrans, participle of frāgrō

    From Wiktionary

Flagrant Sentence Examples

  • Napoleon's perfidy at Bayonne was so flagrant as to strip from him the mask of a champion of popular liberty which had previously been of priceless worth.

  • A succession of worldly pontiffs brought the church into flagrant discord with the principles of Christianity.

  • The courts have, however, the right to interfere for the protection of the wife in case of any flagrant abuse of the power thus vested in the husband.

  • The sequestration of the monastic estates, which in 1864 covered nearly one-third of Rumania, was due to flagrant abuses.

  • In 1831, his father's quarrel with the Porte having become flagrant, Ibrahim was sent to conquer Syria.

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