Something that is egregious stands out, but not in a good way it means "really bad or offensive." If you make an egregious error during a championship soccer match, your coach might bench you for the rest of the game.
Surpassing; extraordinary; distinguished (in a bad sense); -- formerly used with words importing a good quality, but now joined with words having a bad sense;
Adjective S.
conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible; "a crying shame"; "an egregious lie"; "flagrant violation of human rights"; "a glaring error"; "gross ineptitude"; "gross injustice"; "rank treachery"
a.
Surpassing; extraordinary; distinguished (in a bad
sense); -- formerly used with words importing a good quality, but now
joined with words having a bad sense; as, an egregious rascal; an
egregious ass; an egregious mistake.
Egregious
The egregious impudence of this fellow.
His [Wyclif's] egregious labors are not to be neglected.
Surpassing; extraordinary; distinguished (in a bad sense); -- formerly used with words importing a good quality, but now joined with words having a bad sense;
Usage Examples
There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.
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Other Usage ExamplesSince those who believe they need a hero/celebrity outnumber the actual heroes/celebrities, people feel safe and comfortably justified in numbers, committing egregious crimes in the name of the greater social ego. Ironically diminishing their own true hero-celebrity nature in the process.
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