FLAGRANT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does flagrant mean? 

• FLAGRANT (adjective)
  The adjective FLAGRANT has 1 sense:

1. conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible

  Familiarity information: FLAGRANT used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FLAGRANT (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible

Synonyms:

crying; egregious; flagrant; glaring; gross; rank

Context example:

rank treachery

Similar:

conspicuous (obvious to the eye or mind)

 Context examples 

It was a dreadful picture of ingratitude and inhumanity; and Anne felt, at some moments, that no flagrant open crime could have been worse.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Mrs. Rushworth had left her husband's house: Mr. Rushworth had been in great anger and distress to him (Mr. Harding) for his advice; Mr. Harding feared there had been at least very flagrant indiscretion.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

The injustice of his sentence was very flagrant; all Paris was indignant; and it was judged that his religion and wealth rather than the crime alleged against him had been the cause of his condemnation.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

A Christmas frost had come at midsummer; a white December storm had whirled over June; ice glazed the ripe apples, drifts crushed the blowing roses; on hayfield and cornfield lay a frozen shroud: lanes which last night blushed full of flowers, to-day were pathless with untrodden snow; and the woods, which twelve hours since waved leafy and flagrant as groves between the tropics, now spread, waste, wild, and white as pine-forests in wintry Norway.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I was frightened when I became conscious that I was seeing red, and the thought flashed through my mind: was I, too, becoming tainted by the brutality of my environment? —I, who even in the most flagrant crimes had denied the justice and righteousness of capital punishment?

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)