Definition of Blatancies

1. blatancy [n] - See also: blatancy

Lexicographical Neighbors of Blatancies

blasts
blasts from the past
blastula
blastulae
blastular
blastulas
blastulation
blastulations
blastule
blastules
blastwave
blastworthy
blasty
blat
blat out
blatancies (current term)
blatancy
blatant
blatantly
blate
blater
blates
blatest
blather
blathered
blatherer
blatherers
blathering
blathers
blatherskite

Literary usage of Blatancies

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1904)
"And I pass over as irrelevant, ' nuisance, blatancies, bigotries and cocksureness ' as applied to popular education. Such is the language of this ..."

2. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1883)
"... and enchant our little ones with the blatancies and brutalities heretofore unfairly reserved for the enjoyment of counter-jumpers and shop-girls, ..."

3. The New Era in American Poetry by Louis Untermeyer (1919)
"Such familiar blatancies need not detain us; they are evanescent space-fillers and trade goods that are no more related to poetry than they are to ..."

4. Writing the Short-story: A Practical Handbook on the Rise, Structure by Joseph Berg Esenwein (1918)
"... heavy virtue and the blatancies of flippant vulgarity while typifying both most deftly. The moulds in which conversation is cast are of forms is various ..."

5. The Methodist Review (1881)
"There would be no hue and cry of " persecution;" no blatancies about " bigotry," " intolerance," et cetera. Every one would see at once ..."

6. Prejudices: First Series by Henry Louis Mencken (1919)
"... a sensitiveness to beauty. And there was in him, too, under all his blatancies, a poignant sense of the infinite romance and mystery of human life. ..."

7. World War Issues and Ideals: Readings in Contemporary History and Literature by Morris Edmund Speare (1918)
"There are bad symptoms here and there: vulgarities, meannesses, intrigues, and blatancies. Such things exist in every large society, and a state of long and ..."

8. Shadow-shapes: The Journal of a Wounded Woman, October 1918-May 1919 by Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant (1920)
"... leading an abnormal, transplanted existence connected with the touristic and suburban regions of this ancient city, — with the blatancies of the Champs ..."

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