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n. Blatant quality.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. Blatant quality.
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n. the property of being both obvious and offensive
Word Usage
"But what undermines the book "is not simply the blatancy of the symbolism, or the conversations in which everyone makes their part in the novel's psychological framing just a shade too clear, but a kind of procedural elephantiasis.""