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Indecent vs Flagrant - What's the difference?

indecent | flagrant |

As adjectives the difference between indecent and flagrant

is that indecent is indecent while flagrant is obvious and offensive, blatant, scandalous or flagrant can be (obsolete).

indecent

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • offensive to good taste
  • not in keeping with conventional moral values; improper, immodest or unseemly

    • Synonyms

    * (offensive to good taste ): distasteful, in bad taste, in poor taste, offensive * (not in keeping with conventional moral values ): immodest, immoral, improper, unseemly

    Anagrams

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    flagrant

    English

    Alternative forms

    * flagraunt (qualifier)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) flagrant, from (etyl) flagrantem, present participle of . More at (l).

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Obvious and offensive, blatant, scandalous
  • * 1740, David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature
    • It is certain, therefore, that in all our notions of morals we never entertain such an absurdity as that of passive obedience, but make allowances for resistance in the more flagrant instances of tyranny and oppression.
  • (archaic) On fire, flaming.
    • Synonyms
    * (obvious and offensive) blatant, glaring * (on fire) burning, flaming
    Related terms
    * in flagrante delicto

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete)
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