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.