conspicuously

Adverb

Meaning

in a prominent way

in a manner tending to attract attention

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Examples

All the political parties alike have their origins in past ideas and not in new ideas - and none more conspicuously so than the Marxists. John Maynard Keynes

It is easy to be conspicuously 'compassionate' if others are being forced to pay the cost. Murray Rothbard

Famous, adj.: Conspicuously miserable. Ambrose Bierce

One hundred years after the Declaration that 'all men are created equal,' there began to gather in Newport a colony of the rich, determined to show that some Americans were conspicuously more equal than others. Alistair Cooke

Institutional Buddhism has been conspicuously ready to accept or ignore the inequalities and tyrannies of whatever political system it found itself under. This can be death to Buddhism, because it is death to any meaningful function of compassion. Gary Snyder

Of course it can be said of jails, too, that they try - by punishing the troublesome - to deter others. No doubt, in certain instances this deterrence actually works. But generally speaking it fails conspicuously. Barbara Deming

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