egregious
i-GREE-jus/ɪˈɡɹiː.d͡ʒəs/
- 1Outstandingly bad in a way that is obvious and shocking; flagrant.
The report called the agency's handling of the complaints an egregious abuse of power.
It was one of the most egregious cases of fraud the auditors had ever seen.
UsageMost often before a noun: an egregious error, egregious abuse, the most egregious case.
Similarflagrant, blatant, glaring, outrageous, gross
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Origin
At first the word was praise, describing someone who stood out from the flock. It joins Latin ēgregius, made of e- ("out of") and grex ("flock"), with the English ending -ous, which goes back to Latin -osus ("full of").