blatant lie

collocation in English

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blatant
adjective
uk
/ˈbleɪ.tənt/us
/ˈbleɪ.tənt/
very obvious and intentional, when this is a ...
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lie
noun[C]
uk
/laɪ/us
/laɪ/
something you say that you know is ...
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(Definition ofblatantandliefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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That is why this request for postponement is ablatantlie: in reality, it is based on a political, not objective, reason.
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She says that that is ablatantlie.
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I think that that is ablatantliewhich has emerged right at the beginning.
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Another advertisement, known to be ablatantlie, is that four out of five people have pyorrhea.
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When quizzed about this by the milk-seller, his blatant lies are exposed.
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It involves itself in various controversies and then dresses up the issues, misrepresents them and tells downright, blatant lies to obtain political advantage.
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And so it goes on throughout this film—a tissue of concealment and, not to put too fine a point on it, of blatant lies.
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I had the great privilege of escaping from its falsehoods and blatant lies.
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We know from our television screens how the news blackout has been imposed, and the official propaganda is blatant lies.
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So far, it has uncovered many inconsistencies and blatant lies in the flawed official version of events.
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At the extremes, we have heard of cases of forged signatures, salespeople entering homes under completely false premises and people being told blatant lies about potential benefits.
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Some of the more blatant lies are so casually delivered that the audience is encouraged to look for more than is going to be disclosed.
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There's just five or six blatant lies in there.
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They broke the law, told blatant lies and should have got a 10-point penalty.
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Clothier reasoned that people were capable of telling blatant lies under oath.
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Stan repeatedly attempts to get the truth out of his parents but fails every time with increasingly blatant lies from his parents.
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