blatantly

Example Sentences

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Roger: That was so blatantly offside, have linesman lost their natural ability to spot stuff like this since the introduction of VAR?

From BBC • Feb. 15, 2026

The result: The state looked hard at the practice, at the assisted-suicide physicians blatantly failing to follow the most minimal of safeguards, and then decided this year to “suspend” its monitoring program for the procedure.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 23, 2025

Numerous rights groups urged MPs to reject the law, saying adopting it "would blatantly violate Kazakhstan's international human rights commitments," the International Partnership for Human Rights said in a statement.

From Barron's • Nov. 12, 2025

All of this is blatantly illegal in the eyes of many experts, with the U.N.’s human rights chief Volker Türk saying, “These attacks – and their mounting human cost – are unacceptable.”

From Salon • Nov. 5, 2025

On the one hand, he found the blatantly proslavery arguments “shamefully indecent” and described his colleagues from South Carolina and Georgia as “intemperate beyond all example and even all decorum.”

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis