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    conspicuously
    [ adv ]
    1. in a manner tending to attract attention

      2. <adv.all>
      there have been plenty of general declarations about willingness to meet and talk, but conspicuously no mention of time and place
    2. in a prominent way

      3. <adv.all>
      the new car was prominently displayed in the driveway


    Conspicuous \Con*spic"u*ous\, a. [L. conspicuus, fr. conspicere
    to get sight of, to perceive; con- + spicere, specere, to
    look. See {Spy}]
    1. Open to the view; obvious to the eye; easy to be seen;
    plainly visible; manifest; attracting the eye.

    It was a rock
    Of alabaster, piled up to the clouds,
    Conspicious far. --Milton.

    Conspicious by her veil and hood,
    Signing the cross, the abbess stood. --Sir W.
    Scott.

    2. Obvious to the mental eye; easily recognized; clearly
    defined; notable; prominent; eminent; distinguished; as, a
    conspicuous excellence, or fault.

    A man who holds a conspicuous place in the
    political, ecclesiastical, and literary history of
    England. --Macaulay.

    Syn: Distinguished; eminent; famous; illustrious; prominent;
    celebrated. See {Distinguished}. -- {Con*spic"u*ous*ly},
    adv. -- {Con*spic"u*ous*ness}, n.

    1. Vuillard was conspicuously not of their number.
    2. Another U.S. corporate raider who hasn't been conspicuously bearish, Irwin Jacobs, said yesterday, "Obviously this whole thing is just preposterous.
    3. Right now, the nuts and bolts are conspicuously missing."
    4. That is conspicuously not the case with sterling.
    5. But, like him again, she is also limited in her education and her social vision, seems lacking conspicuously in imagination and flair, and is conservative enough to regard most change as change for the worse.
    6. Michael Dukakis is conspicuously the best choice to lead America as its president through the coming four years," the editorial said.
    7. While the program conspicuously lacks any Soviet rock bands, MTV officials say they expect to include some later.
    8. There was no need for Judge Sorkow to settle this case so conspicuously on the ground of "contract."
    9. 'Compared to what is driving most currency movements, House of Commons votes are somewhat esoteric.' For most of the day the dollar conspicuously failed to gain from tensions in the ERM.
    10. For anything resembling speed in Mike Ockrent's production is conspicuously lacking. There are other gaps.
    11. For some time it has been hard to remain silent when encountering some of those sporting American flag lapel pins. I remember when their public commitment to that symbol of American unity might have been meaningful, but was conspicuously absent.
    12. One might think they are old enough to know better, but Bob Mitchell of Sacramento swears that a couple of men who looked rather young to be playing with the seniors showed up at a recent tournament with conspicuously fresh-looking birth certificates.
    13. There is nothing ostentatiously original about the plot or the characters, and the style never becomes conspicuously literary in either a grandiloquent or minimalist way.
    14. But as the chart shows, the Tory government has not been conspicuously successful in getting unemployment to come down without inflation rising.
    15. A trade group banded together in an advertising campaign to warn that the nation was running out of oil, but Texaco, conspicuously, refused to support the campaign.
    16. Far less surprising was the fate of Renoir's earthy modern Madonna depicting his mistress Aline feeding their - conspicuously male - baby.
    17. The Soviet Union kept conspicuously silent Wednesday about the U.S. military buildup in the Middle East in what appeared to be a tacit endorsement of the moves against Iraq, Moscow's former ally.
    18. Calls from industry for a devaluation of the currency were conspicuously absent during the election campaign.
    19. Although Bennett is widely believed to have had his eye on that spot, Bush has been conspicuously silent about Bennett during all his talk about being "the education president."
    20. "As the self-professed candidates of competence, Michael Dukakis staked his hopes on some conspicuously incompetent advertising," the magazine said of the Democratic nominee's ads.
    21. On the day of the invasion, the Arab world was conspicuously silent except to warn against foreign intervention in Kuwait.
    22. He brands himself _ emphatically so _ as "avante garde" and ranks his interests pyramid style with family at the top, followed by the arts, the community and business, which is conspicuously last.
    23. Also conspicuously absent are tycoons such as Jay Gould, Jim Fisk, Daniel Drew and Charles T. Yerkes, who did not count political honesty among their chief virtues.
    24. The measures display a sophistication - and admittedly a level of international collaboration - which was conspicuously absent during the UK's vain attempt to defend sterling last September.
    25. Still, the vice president has been sticking to safe topics, and has conspicuously avoided discussing the kinds of specific issues that might buttress his claim to a mandate.
    26. Its preference was not surprising, but its language towards Mr Bush was conspicuously harsh.
    27. The federal government has been conspicuously clumsy and misguided at times.
    28. But the later phases are conspicuously quieter with big 'To Rent' signs festooned across empty offices.
    29. The bill requires that banks, savings and loans and credit unions clearly and conspicuously give the annual percentage yield most prominence in their advertising and also disclose any minimum balances necessary and the annual rate of simple interest.
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