glaringly
Pronunciation Adverb
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Pronunciation Adverb
glaringly
- In a glaring manner:
- (literally) With intense light.
- 1947, Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano, New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, Chapter 5,
- […] the light now on, now off, now on too glaringly, now too dimly, with the glow of a fitful dying battery—then at last to know the whole town plunged into darkness […]
- 1958, Robert A. Heinlein, Have Space Suit—Will Travel, New York: Ballantine, 1977, Chapter 7, p. 114,
- The ground was covered with snow, glaringly white even under that pinpoint Sun.
- 2011, Alan Hollinghurst, The Stranger's Child, London: Picador, Part Four, Chapter 1,
- After dusk in Bedford Square you could see into the high first-floor windows of publishers’ offices, the walls of bookshelves and often a huddle of figures at a glaringly lit party.
- 1947, Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano, New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, Chapter 5,
- (figurative) So as to be highly visible or obvious; so as to attract notice or attention.
- The error was glaringly obvious, yet nobody said anything about it.
- 1782, Frances Burney, Cecilia (Burney novel), London: T. Payne & Son, and T. Cadell, Volume 4, Book 7, Chapter 9, p. 133,
- Cecilia was quite confounded by this speech; to have it known that Delvile had visited her, was in itself alarming, but to have her own equivocation thus glaringly exposed, was infinitely more dangerous.
- 1847, Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights, Chapter 22,
- ‘How can you lie so glaringly to the poor child?’ I called from the inside.
- 1901, H. G. Wells, The Sea Lady, London: Methuen, 1902, Chapter 3, Part I, p. 72,
- To find the reporters hammering at their doors, so to speak, and fended off only for a time by a proposal that they should call again; to see their incredible secret glaringly in print, did indeed for a moment seem a hopeless exposure to both the Buntings and the Sea Lady.
- 1999, J. M. Coetzee, Disgrace, Penguin, 2000, Chapter Three, p. 24,
- Her accent is glaringly Kaaps;
- (literally) With intense light.
- (so as to be highly obvious) blatantly, plainly; see also Thesaurus:obviously
- Italian: palesemente
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