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egregious
/ɪˈɡɹidʒəs/
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What does egregious mean?
adjective
- Conspicuous, exceptional, outstanding; usually in a negative sense.
- Outrageously bad; shocking.
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IPA pronunciation
/ɪˈɡɹidʒəs/
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Ay me, most credulous fool, Egregious murderer, thief, anything That’s due to all the villains past, in being, To come!
To a man of Butler's egregious vanity his trial was a glorious opportunity for displaying his intellectual gifts, such as they were.
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This is a most egregious mistake, especially in respect to the subtle and complex spiritual experiences which the more deeply subjective poetry embodies.
The extortionate hotel-keepers, the "snub-nosed rogues of counter and till," who overcharge you in the shops, make their egregious profits from the Kursaal.
The report given by this subject included egregious denials of some of the main objects in the picture, and so was fictitious to this extent.