Example sentences for: flagrantly

How can you use “flagrantly” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The Yugoslav government has flagrantly violated the limits stipulated in the October agreement."

  • It is the prurient prosecutor who imposed his Puritanical moralism on a sexually liberated if somewhat confused woman--a man who held her against her will, denied her the right to call her lawyer, harassed her mother and brother, flagrantly violated her constitutional rights.

  • There's a real difference between affirmative action as it was initially defined (an effort to expand the recruitment pool and make sure that there is no discrimination in the hiring process) and what is generally practiced today: flagrantly color-coded double standards.

  • He lost his way in the '90s with flagrantly commercial junk such as Sleeping With the Enemy (1991) and The Money Train (1995); and so did his True Believer screenwriter, the former Rolling Stone journalist Wesley Strick, who made his fortune and lost his good name with the abominable Cape Fear remake (1991), Wolf (1994), and The Saint (1997).

  • It apparently never occurred to even one of these overpaid scribes to eliminate Hopkins' rueful realization that he'd "never write the great American novel"--no kidding, given his flagrantly Welsh accent.


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