flagrancy

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But five years after a razor-thin vote made alcohol sales legal, some residents were turned off by the restaurant’s flagrancy.

From Washington Post • Nov. 20, 2019

Faced with such unbridled flagrancy, the US establishment has never been keen to accept the idea that Melville may just possibly have been gay.

From The Guardian • Jul. 30, 2019

“These unprecedented figures appropriately reflect the conspiracy’s breathtaking flagrancy, its systemic reach and its significant impact,” Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch said.

From New York Times • May 24, 2015

I recognize the flagrancy of such unchecked capitalism and still, I read these articles with tempered delight.

From Salon • Sep. 6, 2013

I do not think they have found out a good cure; and I am of opinion, too, that flagrancy proceeds from national depravity, which tinkering one branch will not remedy.

From Letters of Horace Walpole — Volume II by Walpole, Horace