In November, the Ministry of Land and Natural Resources cited the golf project as one of the five most egregious examples of illegal land seizures in China, noting that nearly a third of the land was taken improperly and that compensation had not been paid.
The most egregious examples have been in so-called land grabs, where companies have taken land in parts of Africa as well as countries such as Cambodia, Guatemala without consent from the communities concerned and without providing compensation.
It is surely the most egregious and unnecessary form of coal extraction: thousands of acres of land are blown up and bulldozed away, as if the land itself is an unpleasant encumbrance without any value whatsoever.
Its inhabitants could find themselves living in goldfish bowl over the two years, as tabloid journalists trawl their social media accounts for signs of egregious spending habits and the more impressionable residents land themselves reality TV deals.
Senior movers and shakers often land on their feet, no matter how egregious the losses tied to them.
Russia's annexation of Crimea in 2014 was another egregious breach of international law, the sort of blatant land grab that most people believed belonged to the bad old days of 1930s Europe.
Consider that the most obvious examples of plastic surgery are also the ones that land on the lists of the most egregious.
Trump has described the monument designations of his predecessors, specifically President Barack Obama, as an "egregious abuse of federal power" that locks up federal land and threatens local economies.
One of the film's most disturbing aspects is its egregious use of the word "nigger"—an old offense in Tarantino-land (Gawker's Rich Juzwiak recently compiled an exhaustive history of his involvement with the epithet).
Nathaniel Lawrence, a senior lawyer with the Natural Resources Defense Council, said, "What's really egregious is the giveaway for any purpose of a significant chunk of the public-land estate in a particularly sensitive and literally world-famous locale".
