Tuesday, October 20, 2026
egregious
ih-GREE-juhs, adjective
Outstandingly bad; shocking in its degree.
“An egregious typo shipped on the billboard itself.”
Where egregious comes from
It used to be praise, from the Latin for standing out from the flock.
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