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How to use egregious in a sentence

18 example sentences · adjective

Egregious means conspicuous, exceptional, outstanding; usually in a negative sense. Example: “The student has made egregious errors on the examination.”

Examples of egregious by meaning

adjectiveConspicuous, exceptional, outstanding; usually in a negative sense.

  • The student has made egregious errors on the examination.

More sentences with egregious

  • Some consider the defacement of the Sphinx to be the most egregious crime of Napolean's campaigns.From the entry defacement
  • Although his action was egregious and cruel, I'm not sure if it is litigable.From the entry litigable
  • A cursory view of the report revealed his egregious errors.From the entry cursory
  • Today's developers have learned from some of the most egregious examples of P2W design.2022, Joshua Bycer, Game Design Deep Dive: Free-to-Play, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 5. From the entry P2W
  • Verily, evisceration would be apropos for the egregious superfluousity of his floral verbiage.2006 January 5, Hughes., “Kieron Gillen Needs To Die”, in uk.games.video.misc (Usenet). From the entry superfluousity
  • The medieval knight had to be magnanimous, ingenious, largifluous, egregious, strenuous—a real Miles dei.1957, August Closs, Medusa’s Mirror: Studies in German Literature, London: The Cresset Press, page 47. From the entry largifluous
  • Commercial bribery, spying, egregious misrepresentation and bludgeonry are the things which interest the Federal Trade Commission.1921, Gilson Gardner, Why the Sherman Anti-Trust Law Has Failed. From the entry bludgeonry
  • The punishment was egregious, and Fulvet had commuted it, but the skiffers had been whipped into a fury.2021 December 7, M. A. Carrick, The Liar's Knot, Orbit, →ISBN. From the entry skiffer
  • But the most egregious transgression, at least in her opinion, is his postprandial habit of chomping and crunching on nuts.2020 May 25, Abby Ellin, “Couples Who Eat Together May Not Stay Together”, in New York Times. From the entry postprandial
  • To complete my self-determination, to live an authentic life, I would have to leave the community, the most egregious offense imaginable.2019, Abby Chava Stein, Becoming Eve, Seal Press, page 8. From the entry derech
  • I refer, among other things, to the egregious abuses during our neverenda referenda and the federal robocall scandal.2014 June 17, Yaniv Loran, “How to get out the youth vote”, in The Gazette, Montreal, Que., page A16. From the entry neverendum
  • This Biscuitoid Cosmocide may sound like a particularly egregious case of nihilistically bad manners, but it is our only hope.2009, Pope Gus Rasputin Nishnabotna Sni-A-Bar, The Nuclear Platypus Biscuit Bible, page 177. From the entry cosmocide
  • It was considered the most egregious of egregiosities to have any bad mark whatsoever on ones PERMANENT RECORD.2006 July 13, lebanonfan, “Your PERMANENT RECORD”, in Google Groups (Talk Marion County 24/7), archived from the original on 15 Aug 2023. From the entry egregiosity
  • The Assassins talk ludicrously—This is a most egregious misimitation of Shakespere—Schiller should not have attempted Tragicomedy & none but Shakespere has succeeded.2018, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Complete Poetical Works of Coleridge. From the entry misimitation
  • Perhaps the most egregious example of shifting the standards of evidence comes when the report discusses the off-label use of drugs such as chloroquine and ivermectin.2024 December 11, John Timmer, “New congressional report: “COVID-19 most likely emerged from a laboratory””, in Ars Technica. From the entry chloroquine
  • Be that as it may, as in the case of your previous egregious egregiosity, thar be plenty o' species o' value, you two-bit case of green jello.1999 September 23, Paul Strong, “Frightening, not bizarre”, in talk.bizarre (Usenet). From the entry egregiosity
  • We all knew that for years he had suffered from the evil effects of a dangerous dietary system, called (after the name of its egregious inventor) “Fletcherizing”.1934, Edith Wharton, A Backward Glance, Appleton-Century Company, page 365. From the entry fletcherize

Meaning of egregious

  1. adjective Conspicuous, exceptional, outstanding; usually in a negative sense.
  2. adjective Outrageously bad; shocking.

Full definition of egregious

Questions about egregious in a sentence

How do you use egregious in a sentence?
Egregious is used as an adjective. For example: “The student has made egregious errors on the examination.”
What is a short sentence with egregious?
“The student has made egregious errors on the examination.”
What does egregious mean?
Egregious means conspicuous, exceptional, outstanding; usually in a negative sense.

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