(of actions that are considered bad坏的行为) done in an obvious and open way without caring if people are shocked明目张胆的；公然的 synonym flagrant- a blatant attempt to buy votes公然的贿选企图
- It was a blatant lie.那是个赤裸裸的谎言。🔊🔊
Oxford Collocations DictionaryBlatant is used with these nouns: - attempt
- bias
- contradiction
- …
See full entry Word Originlate 16th cent.: perhaps an alteration of Scots blatand ‘bleating’. It was first used by Spenser as an epithet for a thousand-tongued monster produced by Cerberus and Chimaera, a symbol of calumny (slander), which he called the blatant beast. It was subsequently used to mean ‘clamorous, offensive to the ear’, first of people (mid 17th cent.), later of things (late 18th cent.); the sense ‘unashamedly conspicuous’ arose in the late 19th cent.