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egregious Definition

egre·gious (ē grējəs, i-; also, --jē əs)

adjective

  1. Archaic remarkable
  2. outstanding for undesirable qualities; remarkably bad; flagrant an egregious error

Etymology: L egregius, separated from the herd, hence select < e-, out + grex: see gregarious

egregious Related Forms
egre·giously adverb egre·gious·ness noun
egregious Synonyms

egregious

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egregious Usage Examples

Modifies a noun

  • violation: Repeated or egregious violation will result in permanent expulsion of the offender from the list.
  • error: Some egregious errors were caused by The Tablet ' s eagerness for joining debates.
  • example: The bond yield myth is thus an egregious example of data mining.
  • case: Egregious individual cases can still be championed - and given individual attention.
  • mistake: I believe that the most egregious mistake these couples made was not spending enough time seriously planning for a lifetime together in marriage.
  • act: Any Labor supporter knows what it is like to be lectured over dinner on every egregious act the government has ever perpetrated.

Modifying Another Word

  • particularly: Sadly, the errors on the part of Mr Pike were particularly egregious.
  • so: This mistaken expectation was so egregious as to beg for some sort of explanation.
  • really: The computer-science guru Martin Davis counted " 86 really egregious errors " in Wallace's book.
  • very: There is nothing very difficult - nor, in purely linguistic terms, anything very egregious - in the English.

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