egregious
[ih-gree-juh s, -jee-uh s]
- extraordinary in some bad way; glaring; flagrant: an egregious mistake; an egregious liar.
- Archaic. distinguished or eminent.
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Origin of egregious
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Contemporary Examples
Anyone who disagreed with their interpretation was—in the words of these professors—“egregiously misrepresenting the law.”
Most egregiously, Krrish shamelessly steals from its predecessors.
We were egregiously misreading his work in order to justify an unreasonable amount of consumption.
Those lies flow most egregiously (but not exclusively) from the president of the United States.
The Good Wife was egregiously shut out of the Best Drama race.
Historical Examples
The poor man little suspected how egregiously she was deceiving him!
City CrimesGreenhorn
To take Punch only for a clown is to mistake him egregiously.
My dear fellow, somebody has imposed upon you most egregiously!
The Belle's StratagemHannah Cowley
But the verdict of time has proved how egregiously he was in the wrong.
Tobias SmollettOliphant Smeaton
How egregiously wrong must his sister have been in her estimate of the man!
Marion FayAnthony Trollope
egregious
- outstandingly bad; flagrantan egregious lie
- archaic distinguished; eminent
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Word Origin
C16: from Latin ēgregius outstanding (literally: standing out from the herd), from ē- out + grex flock, herd
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Word Origin and History for egregiously
egregious
adj.
1530s, "distinguished, eminent, excellent," from Latin egregius "distinguished, excellent, extraordinary," from the phrase ex grege "rising above the flock," from ex "out of" (see ex-) + grege, ablative of grex "herd, flock" (see gregarious).
Disapproving sense, now predominant, arose late 16c., originally ironic and is not in the Latin word, which etymologically means simply "exceptional." Related: Egregiously; egregiousness.
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