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[ adjective ] shining intensely
Examples "the blazing sun" "blinding headlights" "dazzling snow" "fulgent patterns of sunlight" "the glaring sun" Used in print (Organic Gardening and Farming,...)Pansies are supposed to like it cool , but those great velvety flowers were healthy and perky in the glaring sun . (Glayds H. Barr, The Master of Geneva....)Pierre_Ameaux , the gaming-card manufacturer said , his little pig eyes glaring . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible
Examples "a crying shame" "an egregious lie" "flagrant violation of human rights" "a glaring error" "gross ineptitude" "gross injustice" "rank treachery" Used in print (William C. Smith, "Why Fear Ideas?"...)Anyone who tried to remedy some of the most glaring defects in our form of democracy was denounced as a traitorous red whose real purpose was the destruction of our government . Related terms |
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