adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a blatant attempt disapproving (= when someone openly tries to do something bad )
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It was a blatant attempt to hide the truth.
a blatant lie (= an obvious lie )
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He felt sure Adams was not convinced by such blatant lies.
a blatant/glaring example (= very obvious and very bad )
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His case is a blatant example of the unfairness of the current systen.
a flagrant/blatant violation (= a very clear violation )
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The act of shooting down a civilian aircraft was a flagrant violation of international law.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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She spoke coyly, but her actions were more blatant .
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The racism alleged by the new plaintiffs is more blatant than what was alleged previously.
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So, if his tactics in October 1962 were perhaps more blatant than in the past, they were certainly far from unprecedented.
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There could hardly have been a more blatant political manipulation of the public inquiry system in favour of the developer.
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The most blatant form of selection occurs when a study includes only those cases that support the theory.
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Private social welfare organizations have been campaigning for years to end this most blatant exploitation of child labor.
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It occurs all over the hierarchy, but is seen in its most blatant form at the second level.
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The bad news is that publishers are succumbing more and more often to the most blatant sort of greed.
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The first is that some cricketers have been cheating for years in a most blatant manner.
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Talk of ignorance in the face of the most blatant hint.
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The judiciary only resort to disciplinary action in the most blatant cases, where the alternative would make us look even worse.
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The pharmaceutical industry is perhaps the most blatant .
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Arabs have also been banned in the past, although perhaps not in so blatant a fashion as the Kaadans.
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But the ballot stuffing was so blatant that even the Labor Department was roused to do something.
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He had no need to be so blatant .
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The drug dealing was once so blatant .
■ NOUN
example
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The blatant example of Stalin has vividly shown the world this.
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It was they who would make full propagandist use of Suez as a blatant example of Western imperialism.
lie
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However, it was obviously a blatant lie that he had no idea that Hewett and Charlton were police officers.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a blatant disregard for public safety
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a blatant lie
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At first I tried ignoring his blatant sexual hints and stares.
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The company's refusal to hire him was a blatant act of discrimination.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But the ballot stuffing was so blatant that even the Labor Department was roused to do something.
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But there is also something dangerously blatant about it.
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It's debatable whether that statement is true or not but it was certainly pretty blatant .
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No one expected Jackson to succeed in such a blatant revival of the Cold War.
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Stripped of brand identity, the blatant potency of advertising imagery is laid bare.
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Technological change, however, is less blatant , more insidious, more gradual and more effective.
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The bad news is that publishers are succumbing more and more often to the most blatant sort of greed.
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We are asked to love and question and take care of our bodies; blatant self-destruction has no place here.