blatancy
noun
bla·tan·cy
ˈblā-tᵊn(t)-sē 
plural blatancies
1
: the quality or state of being blatant
2
: something that is blatant
Examples of blatancy in a Sentence
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The ideological blatancy produces some stylistic infelicities.
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Pricilla Gilman, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Aug. 2022
That said, the Red Sox remained put off by the blatancy of the foul ball.
—BostonGlobe.com, 28 Sep. 2019
The blatancy of this white supremacist, anti-Semitic, anti-immigrant — all of this stuff is, in my lifetime as an American citizen, fairly new.
—Gabe Friedman, sun-sentinel.com, 13 Aug. 2019
Donald Trump has brought blatancy to the presidency.
—Joseph Epstein, WSJ, 26 Dec. 2018
Let’s Make Out’ New wave structure meets punk blatancy and 21st-century gender fluency in this opening salvo from Dream Wife, a London art-school trio with an Icelandic singer-screamer, Rakel Mjöll.
—Jon Pareles, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2018
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Pricilla Gilman, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Aug. 2022
That said, the Red Sox remained put off by the blatancy of the foul ball.
—BostonGlobe.com, 28 Sep. 2019
The blatancy of this white supremacist, anti-Semitic, anti-immigrant — all of this stuff is, in my lifetime as an American citizen, fairly new.
—Gabe Friedman, sun-sentinel.com, 13 Aug. 2019
Donald Trump has brought blatancy to the presidency.
—Joseph Epstein, WSJ, 26 Dec. 2018
Let’s Make Out’ New wave structure meets punk blatancy and 21st-century gender fluency in this opening salvo from Dream Wife, a London art-school trio with an Icelandic singer-screamer, Rakel Mjöll.
—Jon Pareles, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2018
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“Blatancy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/blatancy. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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