glaringly
advUK /ˈɡlɛəɹɪŋli/ · US /ˈɡlɛɹɪŋli/
Etymology From glaring + -ly.
› In a glaring manner:
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Literally With intense light.
- […] the light now on, now off, now on too glaringly, now too dimly, with the glow of a fitful dying battery—then at last to know the whole town plunged into darkness […]1947, Malcolm Lowry, chapter 5, in Under the Volcano, New York: Reynal & Hitchcock:
- The ground was covered with snow, glaringly white even under that pinpoint Sun.1958, Robert A. Heinlein, chapter 7, in Have Space Suit—Will Travel, New York: Ballantine, published 1977, page 114:
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- After dusk in Bedford Square you could see into the high first-floor windows of publishers’ offices, the walls of bookshelves and often a huddle of figures at a glaringly lit party.2011, Alan Hollinghurst, The Stranger’s Child, London: Picador, Part Four, Chapter 1:
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Figuratively So as to be highly visible or obvious; so as to attract notice or attention.
- The error was glaringly obvious, yet nobody said anything about it.
- 1782, Frances Burney, Cecilia, London: T. Payne & Son, and T. Cadell, Volume 4, Book 7, Chapter 9, p. 133, Cecilia was quite confounded by this speech; to have it known that Delvile had visited her, was in itself alarming, but to have her own equivocation thus glaringly exposed, was infinitely more dangerous.
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- ‘How can you lie so glaringly to the poor child?’ I called from the inside.1847, Emily Brontë, chapter 22, in Wuthering Heights:
- To find the reporters hammering at their doors, so to speak, and fended off only for a time by a proposal that they should call again; to see their incredible secret glaringly in print, did indeed for a moment seem a hopeless exposure to both the Buntings and the Sea Lady.1901, H. G. Wells, The Sea Lady, London: Methuen, published 1902, Chapter 3, Part I, p. 72:
- Her accent is glaringly Kaaps;1999, J. M. Coetzee, chapter 3, in Disgrace, Penguin, published 2000, page 24: