Example sentences for: flagrantly

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

  • 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.

  • When USA Today polls show that The People overwhelmingly prefer a flagrantly insincere model (Elizabeth Hurley) to the sweet and awkward UPS girl (Elfman) with whom Ed has found love, you have to ask: Are The People supposed to be shallow boobs?

  • 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.

  • 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.


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