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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
Adverb
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Eventually an analyst was hired to work alongside her, which still left the department grossly understaffed.—
Vanity Fair,
Vanity Fair,
12 Jan. 2026
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In fact, at 7,000 rooms, the county might be grossly unprepared to meet the county’s hospital demand of, say, 2030.—
Andre Mouchard,
Oc Register,
9 Jan. 2026
Adverb
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This is egregiously harmful negligence.—
Nicolee Ambrose,
Baltimore Sun,
13 Jan. 2026
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The theatergoer became disruptive to the show and, perhaps most egregiously, to LuPone herself.—
Mathew Rodriguez,
Them.,
17 Dec. 2025
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“Flagrantly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flagrantly. Accessed 17 Jan. 2026.
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