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GLARING
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Shining intensely
Example:
the glaring sun
Synonyms:
blazing; blinding; dazzling; fulgent; glaring; glary
Classified under:
Similar:
bright (emitting or reflecting light readily or in large amounts)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible
Example:
rank treachery
Synonyms:
crying; egregious; flagrant; glaring; gross; rank
Classified under:
Similar:
conspicuous (obvious to the eye or mind)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb glare
Context examples:
Mrs. Norris was a little confounded and as nearly being silenced as ever she had been in her life; for she was ashamed to confess having never seen any of the impropriety which was so glaring to Sir Thomas, and would not have admitted that her influence was insufficient—that she might have talked in vain.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
As we turned him over I saw a hideous, sallow face, with writhing, furious features, glaring up at us, and I knew that it was indeed the man of the photograph whom we had secured.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Dark handsome new carpets and curtains, an arrangement of some carefully selected antique ornaments in porcelain and bronze, new coverings, and mirrors, and dressing-cases, for the toilet tables, answered the end: they looked fresh without being glaring.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
But more than once, stealing into the room, when it was her watch off, she would catch the two men glaring ferociously at each other, wild animals the pair of them, in Hans's face the lust to kill, in Dennin's the fierceness and savagery of the cornered rat.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
That evidence, he observed, was hardly required in so glaring a case, but I am glad of it, and, indeed, none of our judges like to condemn a criminal upon circumstantial evidence, be it ever so decisive.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
“Curse you, you double traitor!” cried the German, straining against his bonds and glaring murder from his furious eyes.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Thomas Mugridge backed away, glaring as hatefully and viciously as I glared.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
These she put down upon the table without a word, glaring at me the while with exemplary firmness, and then retired, locking the door after her.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
It was horrible to see the fierce brutes with foaming mouths and glaring eyes, rushing and grasping, but forever missing their elusive enemies, while arrow after arrow buried itself in their hides.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Down this my uncle hastened, but his search was not a long one, for the glaring light fell suddenly upon something which brought a groan to my lips and a bitter curse to those of Jem Belcher.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
