blatant

comparative more blatant · superlative most blatant

1. Obvious, on show; unashamed; loudly obtrusive or offensive.

   a blatant breach of good faith in the negotiation

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   So bare-faced that no one can miss such a blatant lie.

   Glory, that blatant word, which haunts some military minds like the bray of the trumpet.

   1855–1859, Washington Irving, The Life of George Washington

   London died away in draggled taverns and dreary scrubs, and then was unaccountably born again in blazing high streets and blatant hotels.

   1910 July 23, G[ilbert] K[eith] Chesterton, “The Blue Cross”, in The Innocence of Father Brown, London; New York, N.Y.: Cassell and Company, published 1911, →OCLC

   He tried to think out what those two men had which so strangely attracted her. They both had a vulgar facetiousness which tickled her simple sense of humour, and a certain coarseness of nature; but what took her perhaps was the blatant sexuality which was their most marked characteristic.

   1915, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter LXXVIII, in Of Human Bondage, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, →OCLC

   WikiLeaks did not cause these uprisings but it certainly informed them. The dispatches revealed details of corruption and kleptocracy that many Tunisians suspected, […]. They also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies.

   2013 June 7, Gary Younge, “Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, archived from the original on 06 Jun 2019, page 18

   Synonyms: ostentatious, bedizened, blingish, brash, campy, catchpenny, chichi, chintzy · Antonyms: furtive

2. archaicBellowing; disagreeably clamorous; sounding loudly and harshly.

   harsh and blatant tones

   1859, Richard Henry Dana Jr., To Cuba and Back

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   A monster, which the Blatant beast men call.

   1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 37

   A blatant bugle tears my afternoons. / Out clump the clumsy Tommies by platoons, / Trying to keep in step with rag-time tunes, / But I sit still; I've done my drill.

   1918, Wilfred Owen, The Calls