What Is the Meaning of the Word Egregious
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egregious
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adjective
extraordinary in some bad way; glaring; flagrant: an egregious mistake; an egregious liar.
Archaic. distinguished or eminent.
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Origin of egregious
First recorded in 1525–35; from Latin ēgregius "preeminent, outstanding," equivalent to ē- + greg-, stem of grēx "flock" + -ius adjective suffix; see e-1, -ous
OTHER WORDS FROM egregious
e·gre·gious·ly, adverb e·gre·gious·ness, noun non·e·gre·gious, adjective non·e·gre·gious·ly, adverb
non·e·gre·gious·ness, noun un·e·gre·gious, adjective un·e·gre·gious·ly, adverb un·e·gre·gious·ness, noun
Words nearby egregious
egotistic, ego trip, egotropic, e-government, EGR, egregious, egress, egression, egressive, egret, Egypt
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How to use egregious in a sentence
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After years of activists' efforts to alert lawmakers to these egregious legal gaps, deepfakes are finally forcing them to pay attention.
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What is potentially most egregious about Williams's diminished performance in the category of return points won is the caliber of servers she's letting slide.
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Just because there's a comparatively small chance your site has egregious on-site issues, doesn't mean your competition isn't continuing to build out their site, both on- and offsite.
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"This is an egregious action at a time when households and small businesses across the country need high-speed, reliable broadband more than ever but are struggling to make ends meet," Pallone, McNerney and Doyle wrote in their letters.
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I'd say the game was about Jackson, the Baltimore defense and an absolutely egregious punt by Vrabel on fourth-and-2, down 5 with 10 minutes remaining.
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Perhaps one of the most egregious examples is the abuse of civil asset forfeiture laws.
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They are both complicit in this, though my mother is the more egregious offender.
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Here are just a few of the most egregious uses of lethal force by Chicago police.
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The most egregious uses of lethal force have been borne by people with intellectual disabilities and children.
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To call Wild an emotional film would be an egregious disservice to its astounding journey to screen.
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So far, so good; but, in another quarter, Allcraft suddenly discovered that he had committed an egregious blunder.
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Fust I knew them geysers begun for to groan egregious like, an' I seen the caribou gallopin' hell-bent south.
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"That young man is a most egregious ass," said Mr Whittlestaff.
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Here was a house that gratified his sensuous nature through and through, and appealed irresistibly to his egregious vanity.
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That the general question of property is at all affected by the obliteration of this interest, is an egregious error.
British Dictionary definitions for egregious
adjective
outstandingly bad; flagrant an egregious lie
archaic distinguished; eminent
Derived forms of egregious
egregiously, adverb egregiousness, noun
Word Origin for egregious
C16: from Latin ēgregius outstanding (literally: standing out from the herd), from ē- out + grex flock, herd
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
What Is the Meaning of the Word Egregious
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