A ticking off from the UK statistics chief, Sir Andrew Dilnot, for an egregious misreading of the OECD education league tables also suggested a self-serving approach to evidence.
Levels of customer service are still probably the worst of any European capital, but truly egregious rudeness and aggression are now the exception rather than the norm, as a whole generation of Muscovites who have travelled the world no longer find surly, Soviet-style service acceptable at home.
"As loth as I am to give any credit to what's happened here, which is egregious, it's clear that some of the conversations this has generated, some of the debate, probably needed to happen," he said.
The incident was deemed to have been 'behavior that is flagrant and particularly injurious to the success of a tournament or is singularly egregious'".
Perhaps the most egregious of all these behaviours is our ongoing commitment to bottled water.
He made few egregious errors and introduced one or two imaginative initiatives.
Starbucks may be the among most egregious tax-avoiders in the country, but coffee is a product with many other ethical concerns.
"It's the first time in many of these leaks that there are really strong allegations not of egregious tax avoidance but of tax evasion, and that is incredibly serious," said Hodge.
The betrayal of one who agrees to put their life and limb on the line seems all the more egregious, as does the failure to maintain the duty of care.
One of the acts, the alien enemies act, was used by Franklin D Roosevelt to intern Japanese Americans during the second world war, another egregious example of government overreaction in the name of security.
And our government is not doing anything to provide relief to students even in the most egregious cases.
