Sentence examples for be egregious from inspiring English sources
adjective
Exceptional, conspicuous, outstanding, most usually in a negative fashion.
- The student has made egregious errors on the examination.
"Your reader is right that it would be egregious to have planted a model in the ad," Mr. Maerov writes in an e-mail.
"Regardless of one's political views on the issue being discussed, we feel the delivery was degrading and the continued comments over several days to be egregious.
But administration officials played that possibility down today, saying Beijing's conduct would have to be "egregious," as one official put it, to gather enough momentum for a boycott.
[Transcript of Louima statement, Page B4.] To the Louima camp, the settlement was about changing what it considered to be egregious police practices.
Making repeated home visits and early morning phone calls, securing written commitments and eliciting oral commitments in front of witnesses might be egregious tactics when used by, say, a credit card company.
Rexroth considered Weil's essay "The Need for Roots" to be "egregious nonsense" and thought she needed a dose of "vulgar but holy frivolity" from the sort of parish priest who would tell her to put some meat on her bones and find a husband.
It's not the only one – there's many, many cases that were egregious, egregiously done.
These were egregious mistakes.
Electric excesses are egregious.
