"Flagrant" is a common, formal word with a serious, negative tone. Pick it when you want to emphasize that someone's bad action is extremely obvious, as if they're not even trying to hide it.

We talk about flagrant behaviors, mistakes, and crimes of all kinds:

1.) They might be mildly rude: "flagrant staring," "flagrant oversharing," "flagrant spotlight-hogging."

2.) Or greedy, or tactless: "flagrant self-promotion," "a flagrant money grab."

3.) Or against the rules: "flagrant violations of the dress code," "flagrant violations of the company policy on birthday celebrations."

4.) Or highly unethical: "flagrant plagiarism," "flagrant adultery."

5.) Or criminal: "flagrant theft," "flagrant killing of civilians."

We also talk about a person's flagrant disregard for something good or proper, as in "his flagrant disregard for spelling" or "her flagrant disregard for turn-taking." And we talk about a person's flagrant display of something bad, as in "their flagrant display of disrespect."

"Amazon's flagrant disregard for health and safety requirements has threatened serious illness and grave harm to the thousands of workers in these facilities and poses a continued substantial and specific danger to the public health."
  — Letitia James, as quoted by Nick Statt, The Verge, 17 February 2021

"[The movie Real Steel is an] entertaining, something-for-everyone contrivance, set in the near future and embellished with flagrant product placement for Dr. Pepper." 
  — Stephen Holden, New York Times, 6 October 2011

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Explain the meaning of "flagrant" without saying "blatant" or "egregious."

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Fill in the blanks: "At (some place or event), (something) is flagrantly overpriced."

Example: "The last time we visited the Disney parks, sodas were flagrantly overpriced. $4 for twelve ounces of Diet Coke is wild."

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Our game this month is "That's A New One!"

I'll define and describe an amusing term that Dictionary.com has recently embraced. See if you can come up with it, and if you need more hints, you can reveal them by highlighting the black bits. To see the answer, scroll all the way down. 

Try this one today:

According to Dictionary.com, it's "the labor involved in maintaining and enhancing family ties, including organizing social occasions, remembering birthdays, sending gifts, etc."

It entered English around the year 1975.

It's one word.

It's a compound word in the pattern "noun + verb + ing," and it alliterates, as in "backbreaking" or "moneymaking."

It starts with the letter... K.

Its number of syllables is...three.

Its first three letters are... KIN.

review this word:

1. The opposite of FLAGRANT could be

A. SHY or TIMID.
B. SUBTLE or SNEAKY.
C. MELLOW or ODORLESS.

2. According to Dan Selcke, "The estate of J.R.R. Tolkien does not mess around... They vanquished a new sort of dragon: a cryptocurrency called JRR Token... The lawyer for the Tolkien estate said this was a 'particularly flagrant _____.'"

A. instance of wordplay
B. case of [copyright] infringement
C. example of protecting [intellectual] property

Answers to the review questions: 1. B 2. B From the game: kinkeeping.

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