It's the Word of the Day for August 23rd.
Today's word is flagrant, spelled F-L-A-G-R-A-N-T.
Flagrant is an adjective.
Something may be described as flagrant if it is conspicuously bad, that is, too bad to be ignored.
Here's the word used in a sentence from Smithsonian Magazine.
It wasn't such a brilliant thought to sit on an artwork, Vanessa Carlin,
the museum's director, tells the New York Times' Claire Moses.
Carlin says the incident highlights just how far people will go to get a good photo,
as well as their flagrant lack of accountability.
These two people decided to escape, she adds.
That was the behavior that really offended us.
A flagrant foul in sports involves no flame or literal heat.
It's just too conspicuously bad for referees to ignore.
But the roots of the word flagrant are hot, hot, hot.
In Latin, flagare means to burn, and flagrance means flaming or fiery.
Both carry meanings relating to literal flames, as well as the figurative flames of passion.
when it was first used in the sixteenth century flagrant had the same flaming fiery meaning as flagrance but by the eighteenth century it had acquired its current meaning of conspicuously bad or offensive another flagrare descendant in english conflagration retained its fiery meaning Some usage experts warn against using flagrant and blatant interchangeably.
While both words apply to noticeable lapses, they are not true synonyms.
Blatant, likely from a Latin word meaning to chatter,
typically describes a person, action, or thing that attracts disapproving attention.