flagrant disregard
collocation in Englishmeaningsofflagrantanddisregard
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flagrant
adjective
uk/ˈfleɪ.ɡrənt/us/ˈfleɪ.ɡrənt/
(of a bad action, situation, person, etc.) shocking because of being ...
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disregard
noun[U]
uk/ˌdɪs.rɪˈɡɑːd/us/ˌdɪs.rɪˈɡɑːrd/
the fact of showing no care or respect ...
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(Definition offlagrantanddisregardfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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These tests have been carried out inflagrantdisregardof international opinion.
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We cannot hope to win their trust if we treat them with suchflagrantdisregardfor civil liberties.
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I think that pedestrians ought to be penalised if theirflagrantdisregardof traffic conditions leads to accidents.
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If there isflagrantdisregardof conditions, surely this is a reason for withdrawing the certificate.
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Where spending exceeds all reasonable limits inflagrantdisregardof the interest of ratepayers and local businesses, authorities will be subject to rate limitation.
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If ever there was a case offlagrantdisregardfor local democracy, it exists in the proposals for the urban development corporation.
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I am not advocatingflagrantdisregardfor intellectual property rights.
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I cannot re-emphasise too strongly how intolerable we find this continuingflagrantdisregardfor all the norms of international law.
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I deplore thisflagrantdisregardof the electorate's wishes.
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Besides being aflagrantdisregardfor the law, it undoubtedly helps to encourage youngsters to take up the smoking habit.
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There has been collective punishment—again, inflagrantdisregardof international law.
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I came to the conclusion long ago that these tragedies were due to theflagrantdisregardof the controls.
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He said that the action of the contractors was totally unacceptable and that theirflagrantdisregard for the statutory planning system was nothing short of scandalous.
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Can it really be contended that massive pollution orflagrantdisregardof safety requirements should not bring about automatic loss of the licence, even if it happens only once?
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We cannot assume that a large number of people who will consider these proposals are all going to act inflagrantdisregardof common sense or justice.
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Either there has been aflagrantdisregardof the conditions or there may have been some other factor about which the public have not been informed.
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Does it make sense to go and negotiate a continuation of this treaty when there is suchflagrantdisregardof the terms which they signed in 1975?
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He mocks theflagrantdisregardfor law, lack of policy architecture by the government and equally blatant lack of incentive from the civil society to change the existing flawed system.
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Laming said, it shows a blatant andflagrantdisregardto the work of this inquiry.
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