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egregious Definition


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egregious (formal)
adj
    1. Outrageous; shockingly bad.
      Thesaurus: flagrant, heinous, notorious, scandalous, glaring, gross, arrant, intolerable, insufferable, monstrous, rank, infamous; Antonym: slight.
Derivative: egregiously
adverb
    Derivative: egregiousness
    noun
      Etymology: 16c: from Latin egregius standing out from the herd, from e out of + grex, gregis herd.



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