Noisy, clamorous, boisterous, hilarious, turbulent, riotous, obstreperous, uproarious, vociferous, blatant, brawling.

There's a blatant, detestable French spy in the house who has got to get out.

There was a little knitted frown of worry on her forehead, for imagination could fill in details of what the coulée held: the white canvas tops of prairie schooners, some spans of oxen grazing near, a group of blatant, profane whiskey-smugglers from Montana, and in the wagons a cargo of liquor to debauch the Bloods and Piegans near Fort Whoop-Up.

Blatant Beast, iii.; iv.

The swift transmigration from the blatant street to a drawing-room had a startling effect on him: it caused him to whip off his hat as though his hat had been red hot.

But those who, having right on their side, were blinded and smitten dumb by the enormous despotism of their self-styled bettersby the glare and noise of blatant power in possessionthey were the ones who really had rights, and if she could give any of them a single hundredth part of what was their due, she should be glad that she had lived.

An age of greedy privilege and sullen poverty, of blatant luxury and curious envy, of rising palaces and vanishing homes, of stupid frivolity and idiotic publicomania; in which four hundred gilded fribbles give monkey-dinners and Louis XV. revels, while four million ungilded gossips gape at them and read about them in the newspapers.

I was put into such a passion of rage by this blatant ribaldry, which affected me like the laughter of a skeleton, that I rushed from the car, with the intention, I believe, of seeking stones to stone it: but no stones were there: and I had to stand impotently enduring that rape of my eyes, its victoriously-dogged iteration, its taunting leer, its Drink RoboralD, R, I, N, K R, O, B, O, R, A, L.

They are not all thirsty, and in this as in all contests the blatant attract the most attention.

Sir Calidore (3 syl.) starts in quest of the Blatant Beast, which had escaped from sir Artegal (bk.

Pastorella being taken captive by brigands, sir Calidore rescues her, and leaves her at Belgard Castle to be taken care of, while he goes in quest of the Blatant Beast.

The "Blatant Beast" is what we now call "Mrs. Grundy.

The blatant bray of the band still sounded in the distance with a flaunting gaiety almost intolerable to those who waited.

And as if this hymn to enlightening Christianity, chanted by an orator who could now hardly see across the gloomy hall, had been a signal, the electric lights went on; and the statues, the escutcheons, and the harsh, blatant figures painted on the cupola, sprang forth from obscurity.

After that, the Food of the Gods sounded blatant to the pitch of indecency.

oh! who can resist The tow-row, tow-row, tow-row of the loud Salvationist? They muster in their thousands on market-place, or green, With blatant brazen brayings, and thump of tambourine.

Others again aver, and probably with equal accuracy, that he was at no time other than what he is when the world first becomes aware of his existencethe blatant, cringing, insolent, able and disreputable wielder of a pen which draws much of its sting and its profit from the vanities and fears of his fellow-creatures.

He expressed great pleasure when Washington summarily rebuked the blatant French envoy.

Of course, there is the other argument, put forward by sceptics, that the Egyptian was a blatant self-advertiser, and that nothing would please him more than the thought that he was being looked at and admired after all these years.

You could see that she was thirty-five, in the blatant candor of noon, but now, blushed with the pink of the setting sun, she was still in the days of the fairy prince.

Macaulay once remarked of the Faery Queen, that few and weary are the readers who are in at the death of the Blatant Beast.

I do not know any book more tedious than "Tragic Comedians," more pretentious, more blatant; it struts and screams, stupid in all its gaud and absurdity as a cockatoo.

"Of all the blatant wretched twaddle I ever did read," he exclaimed, "this is positively the worst.

They both gain and lose by being without a leisured class; it narrows their horizon, but saves them from a vast deal of hysterical nonsense, social mischief and blatant self-advertising.

The intense and blatant blue of her long clinging robe, which would have killed the charms of nine women out of ten, seemed to enhance the beauty of her pure white skin and marvelous hair.