glaringly

From glaring +‎ -ly.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɡlɛəɹɪŋli/, /ˈɡlɛəɹɪŋlɪ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɡlɛɹɪŋli/

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glaringly (comparative more glaringly, superlative most glaringly)

1. In a glaring manner:
   1. (literally) With intense light.
      • 1947, Malcolm Lowry, chapter 5, in Under the Volcano, New York: Reynal & Hitchcock:

        […] the light now on, now off, now on too glaringly, now too dimly, with the glow of a fitful dying battery—then at last to know the whole town plunged into darkness […]

      • 1958, Robert A. Heinlein, chapter 7, in Have Space Suit—Will Travel‎, New York: Ballantine, published 1977, page 114:

        The ground was covered with snow, glaringly white even under that pinpoint Sun.

      • 2011, Alan Hollinghurst, The Stranger’s Child, London: Picador, Part Four, Chapter 1:

        After dusk in Bedford Square you could see into the high first-floor windows of publishers’ offices, the walls of bookshelves and often a huddle of figures at a glaringly lit party.

   2. (figurative) So as to be highly visible or obvious; so as to attract notice or attention.

      The error was glaringly obvious, yet nobody said anything about it.

      • 1782, Frances Burney, Cecilia, London: T. Payne & Son, and T. Cadell, Volume 4, Book 7, Chapter 9, p. 133,

        Cecilia was quite confounded by this speech; to have it known that Delvile had visited her, was in itself alarming, but to have her own equivocation thus glaringly exposed, was infinitely more dangerous.

      • 1847, Emily Brontë, chapter 22, in Wuthering Heights‎:

        ‘How can you lie so glaringly to the poor child?’ I called from the inside.

      • 1901, H. G. Wells, The Sea Lady‎, London: Methuen, published 1902, Chapter 3, Part I, p. 72:

        To find the reporters hammering at their doors, so to speak, and fended off only for a time by a proposal that they should call again; to see their incredible secret glaringly in print, did indeed for a moment seem a hopeless exposure to both the Buntings and the Sea Lady.

      • 1999, J. M. Coetzee, chapter 3, in Disgrace, Penguin, published 2000, page 24:

        Her accent is glaringly Kaaps;

• (so as to be highly obvious): blatantly, plainly; see also Thesaurus:obviously