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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Egregious \E*gre"gious\ (?; 277), a. [L. egregius; lit., separated or chosen from the herd, i. e., distinguished, excellent; e out + grex, gregis, herd. See {Gregarious}.] Surpassing; extraordinary; distinguished (in a bad sense); -- formerly used with words importing a good quality, but now joined with words having a bad sense as an egregious rascal; an egregious ass; an egregious mistake. The egregious impudence of this fellow. --Bp. Hall. His [Wyclif's] egregious labors are not to be neglected. --Milton. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: egregious adj : conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible; "a crying shame"; "an egregious lie"; "flagrant violation of human rights"; "a glaring error"; "gross ineptitude"; "gross injustice"; "rank treachery" [syn: {crying(a)}, {flagrant}, {glaring}, {gross}, {rank}]
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