单词 | blatantly |
释义 | blatantly (once / 12588 pages) adv When you do something blatantly, you do it obviously, without trying to hide it. You might blatantly lie to your boss if you don't care about getting in trouble. Something done or said blatantly is bold and shameless. You might be doing something bad, but if you're doing it blatantly you're not worried about repercussions. In 1596, the poet Edmund Spenser invented the word blatant, using it to describe a slanderous beast. In the 1600s blatantly meant offensively loud, and by the late 1800s it had its current meaning of "conspicuously, obviously." A similar word is flagrantly, but you'd use it to mean "shockingly," while blatantly is closer to "obnoxiously." WORD FAMILYblatant: blatancy, blatantly+/blatancy: blatancies USAGE EXAMPLESDo they realize how blatantly hypocritical that is? Seattle Times(Dec 28, 2016) And this might sound obvious, but don't do anything blatantly reckless like flying near an airport, or, erm, flying with a low battery. BBC(Dec 24, 2016) Last week Breitbart published their latest blatantly misleading article in their ongoing attempt to deny climate change. The Guardian(Dec 05, 2016) adv in a blatant manner they blatantly violated the laws |
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