conspicuous
Police cars were conspicuously parked inside and outside the grounds.
His grin reveals a conspicuously missing tooth.
Escaping from prisons was one of his specialities, but this time he had conspicuously failed.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Apparent and obvious
(from) under your noseidiom
apparent
be (as) plain as the nose on your faceidiom
be (right) under your noseidiom
be etched somewhereidiom
be writ largeidiom
foregone conclusion
glaring
glaringly
I need hardly do somethingidiom
in plain sightidiom
obtrude
palpable
palpably
parallax
patently
perceivable
squeaky
stand/stick out a mileidiom
writ

Examples of conspicuously

conspicuously
Attention has focused almost exclusively on adult beetles, probably because their larvae are conspicuously missing from tropical foliage.
This was a significant break with the practice of previous centuries, when the offspring of the widow had been conspicuously absent from accounts.
There was however a conspicuously greater number of open than close parishes, and even in the latter, landlords' control was rarely complete.
Conspicuously lacking from this body of literature is an effort to investigate the patient-level factors that might account for undertreatment of pain among minorities.
Other indicators of wealth are quite visible and conspicuously flaunted.
They often perch conspicuously atop tall trees and fly high in pairs or loose flocks.
Most obviously, his music adapts conspicuously to match each visual change.
A teenager who is perceived as too free-spirited, conspicuously bright, overly plump, or physically weak risks being targeted or ostracised from the peer group.
A short duration of symptoms is usual, with constitutional problems being conspicuously absent.
Conspicuously absent are southern dialects as well as rural and nomadic communities.
What it conspicuously doesn't do, however, is say anything too explicit about the origin of phyla.
These authors' references to "inhibition" had conspicuously evaluative features.
Conspicuously absent, even in that very motley picture, are back vowels of any length in the left half of the structure.
High carbonate productivity cor relates with smectite-favouring weathering (semiarid conditions, conspicuously dry and moist seasonal changes in warmer climates).
The country has conspicuously fallen out of the broad currents of historical progress.
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