adj
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Meanings
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adj
conspicuously and shockingly wrong, offensive, or unlawful
The judge described the forged evidence as a flagrant abuse of the court process.
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Etymology
From French flagrant and Latin flagrans, the present participle of flagrare (to blaze or burn). Something flagrant was figuratively blazing before the eyes, which produced the modern sense of an offense too glaring to overlook.