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

Blatant \Bla"tant\, a. [Cf. Bleat.] Bellowing, as a calf; bawling; brawling; clamoring; disagreeably clamorous; sounding loudly and harshly. ``Harsh and blatant tone.''
--R. H. Dana.

A monster, which the blatant beast men call.
--Spenser.

Glory, that blatant word, which haunts some military minds like the bray of the trumpet.
--W. Irving.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
blatant

1596, in blatant beast, coined by Edmund Spenser in "The Faerie Queen" to describe a thousand-tongued monster representing slander; probably suggested by Latin blatire "to babble." It entered general use 1650s, as "noisy in an offensive and vulgar way;" the sense of "obvious, glaringly conspicuous" is from 1889. Related: Blatantly.

Wiktionary
blatant

a. 1 bellow, as a calf; bawling; brawling; clamoring; disagreeably clamorous; sounding loudly and harshly. 2 obvious, on show.

WordNet
blatant

  1. adj. without any attempt at concealment; completely obvious; "open disregard of the law"; "open family strife"; "open hostility"; "a blatant appeal to vanity"; "a blazing indiscretion" [syn: blazing, conspicuous, open]

  2. conspicuously and offensively loud; given to vehement outcry; "blatant radios"; "a clamorous uproar"; "strident demands"; "a vociferous mob" [syn: clamant, clamorous, strident, vociferous]

Usage examples of "blatant".

She felt herself grow warm in direct response to the blatant sexual desire that emanated from him.

Max and Phyllis, her presence a blatant challenge, had set his teeth on edge.

Not so long ago she would have felt discomposed and furious by their blatant appraisals.

Unlike that afternoon, when she had appeared bedraggled from the long ride, today she wore her finery in a blatant display of royalty and riches.

Stephen gave her a look that was so blatant, so sexual, that Mary trembled.

If she turned her back on her family, especially now, in such a blatant way, Stephen would have to accept the fact that her loyalty now belonged to him.

His blatant rejection, one not even politely disguised, had been the final blow.

With the bulk of blood washed away, he looked at her with blatant question in his eyes.

Looking at the man, she was immediately aware of the blatant way he looked at her!

Not the consequences of his blatant disregard for military discipline.

Her interest in him surged, attracted by the blatant sexuality in his whisky-rich voice.

His blatant statement caught Erin off guard, and heat filled her face.

She inhaled sharply, surprised and yet turned on by his blatant statement.

Lords and delegates were made to wait through this blatant breach of good manners, Jiro raised a placating voice.

I actually said was a far more blatant lie, even though it was nearer to the truth.