blatancy

noun

bla·​tan·​cy ˈblā-tᵊn(t)-sē How to pronounce blatancy (audio)
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. 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

Word History

First Known Use

1610, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of blatancy was in 1610

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“Blatancy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/blatancy. Accessed 28 Nov. 2024.

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