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Egregious   /ɪgrˈidʒəs/   Listen
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Egregious  adj.  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. "The egregious impudence of this fellow." "His (Wyclif's) egregious labors are not to be neglected."






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"Egregious" Quotes from Famous Books



... was, or at least was dimly conscious of his egregious misbehavior; for he looked neither at Hillyer nor his wife, and was red now where ...
— The Heart of Thunder Mountain • Edfrid A. Bingham

... me how the devil you were discovered; or were you accessory yourself to the discovery, by your egregious folly ...
— Willy Reilly - The Works of William Carleton, Volume One • William Carleton

... Tunbelly, that I am untrussed—give me leave to thank thee for the very extraordinary reception I have met with in thy damned, execrable mansion; and at the same time to assure you, that of all the bumpkins and blockheads I have had the misfortune to meek with, thou art the most obstinate and egregious, strike me ugly! Sir Tun. What's this! I believe you are both rogues alike. Lord Fop. No, Sir Tunbelly, thou wilt find to thy unspeakable mortification, that I am the real Lord Foppington, who was to have disgraced myself by an alliance ...
— Scarborough and the Critic • Sheridan

... questioned, gave us information far more interesting, viz., about the Rusizi. He told us positively, with the air of a man who knew all about it, and as if anybody who doubted him might well be set down as an egregious ass, that the Rusizi River flowed out of the lake, away to Suna's (Mtesa's) country. "Where else could it flow to?" he asked. The Doctor was inclined to believe it, or, perhaps he was more inclined to let it rest as stated until our ...
— How I Found Livingstone • Sir Henry M. Stanley

... came to another stately Province, bordering on St. Martha; whose inhabitants did them many egregious and notable services, bestowing on them innumerable quantities of Gold besides many other gifts, but when they were upon departure, in retribution of their Civil Treating and Deportment the German Tyrant, commanded that all the Indians, with ...
— A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies • Bartolome de las Casas


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