Dictionary of English - blatant or flagrant

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A blatant offence or injustice is a glaring or obvious one: She said she was out, but that's a blatant lie as I saw her through the window. A flagrant offence is similar but stronger, implying a deliberate flouting of a law or code of behaviour: The judge's verdict was thought to be a flagrant miscarriage of justice.

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