adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In a flagrant manner or degree; glaringly, notoriously, scandalously.
1756. J. Warton, Ess. Pope, ii. 62. An epigram of four lines; [is] a species of wit flagrantly unsuitable to the dignity, and as foreign to the nature, of the lyric, as it is of the epic muse.
1818. Cobbett, Pol. Reg., XXXIII. 701. You will see how flagrantly the honour, the permanent interest and glory, of our country, and the interest of freedom and humanity, are all sacrificed to the selfish views of the Boroughmongers.
1874. Motley, Barneveld, II. xx. 332. The States having always exercised the right of church patronage—jus patronatûs—a privilege which, as well as inherited or purchased advowsons, had been of late flagrantly interfered with.
