Definition of "egregious" []

• Conspicuously bad or offensive. See Synonyms at flagrant. (adjective)

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• "That's why Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke protested Tuesday what he described as "egregious errors" in some reports, and released a staff memo with details."
• "The judge discovered what she called egregious government disclosures to expected witnesses."
• "Cursing himself for what he called his egregious folly in making himself the slave of a mere lady's attendant, and for having given the parish, should they know of her refusal, a chance of sneering at him -- certainly a ground for thinking less of his standing than before -- he went home to the Old House, and walked indecisively up and down his back-yard."