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Blatancy

Blatancy \Bla"tan*cy\, n. Blatant quality.

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blatancy

n. (context rare English) The state or quality of being blatant

WordNet
blatancy

n. the property of being both obvious and offensive; "the blatancy of his attempt to whitewash the crime was unforgivable"

Usage examples of "blatancy".

She stared at him, shocked into total silence by the blatancy of his invitation.

He stepped aside to avoid the swinging arm of the loud-voiced man who was punctuating his liquor-born blatancy with violent gestures, and paused at the archway of the main dining-room for Thames.

The assertive blatancy of his clothes was just part of the malevolent animal magnetism that had affected Bond from the beginning.

The art of the perfumer which, like all crude art, thrives upon blatancy, does not make us go to gardens, or love the rose, but often instils in us a kind of artificiality, so that perfumes, so far from being an inspiration to us, increasing our lives, become often the badge of the abnormal, used by those unsatisfied with simple, clean, natural things.

Yet, making allowance for editorial blatancy, they may contain a germ of bitter truth.

Without a care for the blatancy of his assessing perusal, Silas took in the rich appointments of the keep.