egregious

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.