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  1. 1. a. Flaming; inflamed; glowing; burning; ardent. Source: opted
  2. 2. a. Actually in preparation, execution, or performance; carried on hotly; raging. Source: opted
  3. 3. a. Flaming into notice; notorious; enormous; heinous; glaringly wicked. Source: opted
  4. 4. adj. conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible Source: wordnet
  5. 5. 1. Flaming; inflamed; glowing; burning; ardent. The beadle's lash still flagrant on their back. Prior. A young man yet flagrant from the lash of the executioner or the beadle. De Quincey. Flagrant desires and affections. Hooker. 2. Actually in preparation, execution, or performance; carried on hotly; raging. A war the most powerful of the native tribes was flagrant. Palfrey. 3. Flaming into notice; notorious; enormous; heinous; glaringly wicked. Syn. -- Atrocious; flagitious; glaring. See Atrocious. Source: webster
  6. 6. j:100 s conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible Source: ecdict

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