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Recent Examples of flagrantly
Would any self-respecting show really risk insulting the viewer’s intelligence so flagrantly?
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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 most remarkable thing about Watergate was how flagrantly they got caught.
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 29 Aug. 2025
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 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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The clean tech sector's frenzied growth during Biden-era policy has slowed but, to paraphrase Mark Twain, reports of its demise are grossly exaggerated.—
Jeff Young,
MSNBC Newsweek,
19 Sep. 2025
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In 2008, a slight majority of state voters were persuaded by Schwarzenegger’s hard sell and a grossly dishonest official ballot argument to provide just under $10 billion in bond seed money for a $43 billion statewide bullet-train system that they were told would be complete by 2020.—
U T Editorial Board,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
19 Sep. 2025
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Apple is late to the party on implementing WebGL, but not egregiously so.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
15 Sep. 2025
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In North Carolina, as in other Southern states, newspapers in the Jim Crow era often egregiously exaggerated stories about Black criminality.—
Carlo Versano,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 Sep. 2025
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“Flagrantly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flagrantly. Accessed 20 Sep. 2025.
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