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Recent Examples of flagrantly
The film, an official selection at the 2024 Tribeca Film Festival, is yet another innovative step forward by Sister Nancy on behalf of all women in dancehall, a physical space and musical genre that can be flagrantly misogynistic.
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Kyle Denis, Billboard, 20 Oct. 2025
Despite Chinese law setting a 44-hour workweek limit and requiring overtime compensation, numerous companies flagrantly ignored these rules.
—Caroline Castrillon, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
Would any self-respecting show really risk insulting the viewer’s intelligence so flagrantly?
—Graham Hillard, The Washington Examiner, 5 Sep. 2025
Truth Teller reporters repeatedly go undercover to nail down relatively trivial scoops, appearing, in the process, to flagrantly violate the Society of Professional Journalists’ ethical guidelines.
—Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 5 Sep. 2025
The near-universal expert view is that such a quest would be flagrantly unconstitutional.
—Niall Stanage, The Hill, 31 Aug. 2025
The most remarkable thing about Watergate was how flagrantly they got caught.
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 29 Aug. 2025
Kyle Denis, Billboard, 20 Oct. 2025
Despite Chinese law setting a 44-hour workweek limit and requiring overtime compensation, numerous companies flagrantly ignored these rules.
—Caroline Castrillon, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
Would any self-respecting show really risk insulting the viewer’s intelligence so flagrantly?
—Graham Hillard, The Washington Examiner, 5 Sep. 2025
Truth Teller reporters repeatedly go undercover to nail down relatively trivial scoops, appearing, in the process, to flagrantly violate the Society of Professional Journalists’ ethical guidelines.
—Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 5 Sep. 2025
The near-universal expert view is that such a quest would be flagrantly unconstitutional.
—Niall Stanage, The Hill, 31 Aug. 2025
The most remarkable thing about Watergate was how flagrantly they got caught.
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 29 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for flagrantly
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The spooky lights are setting the mood inside and out, the doorway is decorated with pumpkins, skeletons and spiderwebs, the playlist is ready for the monsters to mash and the food table is topped with some grossly realistic-looking grub.—
Cody Godwin,
USA Today,
23 Oct. 2025
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Browning was grossly overmatched.—
Andy Behrens,
New York Times,
11 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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Chargers had lost in Miami last week until Fins’ special-teams and defense egregiously gave it away in the final minute.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
16 Oct. 2025
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Apple is late to the party on implementing WebGL, but not egregiously so.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
15 Sep. 2025
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“Flagrantly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flagrantly. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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