Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Shining intensely and blindingly.
- adjective Tastelessly showy or bright; garish.
- adjective Conspicuous; obvious: synonym: flagrant.
- adjective Staring with anger, fierceness, or hostility.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Emitting a brilliant, dazzling light; shining with dazzling luster.
- Staring.
- Clear; plainly discernible; open and bold; barefaced: as, a glaring mistake or crime.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Clear; notorious; open and bold; barefaced.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Reflecting with
glare . - adjective
Blatant , obvious. - verb Present participle of
glare . - noun A
group ofcats .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective shining intensely
- adjective conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible
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Examples
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My daughter refused to say, her expression glaring defiance.
The Last Great Dance on Earth Sandra Gulland 2001
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My daughter refused to say, her expression glaring defiance.
The Last Great Dance on Earth Sandra Gulland 2001
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It spotlights what he calls a glaring problem for investors: that most indexes are hard-wired to overlook bargains and overpay for wildly popular stocks.
Can This Index Fund Beat the Market? Matt Phillips 2011
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Moodley was critical of what he termed a glaring ommision of the report to include information which would have contributed to greater transparency and understanding of how and why the Motheo contract was awarded.
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Close your eyes and see their faces glaring from the beast's skull.
Tew's Day! jslove 2009
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This, of course, is an exercise in glaring intellectual dishonesty, yet the Globe not only gave prominence to a shoddy little piece of propaganda, but tore away all of the author's clever nuances by referring itself to the boycott as "plain anti-Semitic."
Archive 2009-01-01 2009
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Even more glaring is that in these same studies, Insignia POPS was found to have executed in less than 20% of the stores we surveyed.
Archive 2009-10-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009
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The most glaring is to exercise their right to keep and bear arms.
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Even more glaring is that in these same studies, Insignia POPS was found to have executed in less than 20% of the stores we surveyed.
Interaction between disparagement and antitrust Rebecca Tushnet 2009
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The perception was that I had certain glaring deficits as a reporter, chief being that I could write a pretty feature but was a washout with hard news.
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