Word: flagrantly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hope and believe that the Prohibition movement has resulted in great good, notwithstanding the disregard for law so flagrant in certain localities where temptations for making money by violating the law are more difficult to overcome...
...Boris, from Catholicism to the Orthodox (Bulgarian) faith. The offense was aggravated by the fact that the Bulgarian constitution had been altered, in order that Ferdinand's Catholic wife (the sometime Princess Marie Louise of Bourbon-Parma) might bring up Prince Boris as a Catholic. It was deemed flagrant by the Pope because Boris was converted in 1896 when he was less than two years...
...bewildered. It seemed to expect that at any moment the play would suddenly become Seventeen with an English accent. Such development did not take place, but the audience laughed at the wrong time just the same. Scarcely in the memory of the staunchest theatregoer has there been such a flagrant example of ill manners and incomprehensible stupidity on the part of men and women who marry and go through the other forms of presumably intelligent adulthood...
...Italy especially mind) supplements Article II in defining the circumstances in which action shall be taken against a treaty-violating power. Heavy emphasis is laid upon the principle that advisement shall first be taken if possible with the Council of the League. But in the event of a sudden "flagrant" hostile act, such as a rush by Germany or France upon the Rhineland, each guaranteeing power "undertakes immediately to come to the help of the party against whom such a violation or breach has been directed as soon as the said power has been able to satisfy itself that this...
...Lowell's "flagrant abuse of her poetic gift...