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.
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         The egregious impudence of this fellow.  --Bp. Hall.
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         His [Wyclif's] egregious labors are not to be
         neglected.                               --Milton.
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	egregious
    adj 1: 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),
           egregious, flagrant, glaring, gross, rank]

	

	194 Moby Thesaurus words for "egregious":
   a bit much, abandoned, abominable, absolute, all-embracing,
   all-encompassing, all-out, all-pervading, appalling, arrant,
   astonishing, atrocious, awful, base, beastly, beneath contempt,
   blameworthy, born, boundless, broad-based, brutal, capital,
   classical, clean, clear, complete, comprehensive, congenital,
   conspicuous, consummate, contemptible, crass, decided, deep-dyed,
   definitive, deplorable, despicable, detestable, dire, disgusting,
   downright, dreadful, dyed-in-the-wool, enormous, exaggerated,
   exceptional, excessive, exhaustive, exorbitant, extraordinary,
   extravagant, extreme, fabulous, fancy, fantastic, fetid, filthy,
   flagrant, formidable, foul, fulsome, gigantic, glaring, gluttonous,
   grievous, gross, hateful, heinous, high, horrible, horrid,
   hyperbolic, hypertrophied, immoderate, incontinent, incredible,
   infamous, inordinate, intemperate, intensive, intolerable,
   lamentable, loathsome, lousy, marked, marvelous, monstrous, nasty,
   nefarious, noisome, notable, noteworthy, noticeable, notorious,
   obnoxious, odious, of mark, offensive, omnibus, omnipresent,
   out of bounds, out of sight, out-and-out, outrageous, outright,
   outstanding, overbig, overdeveloped, overgreat, overgrown,
   overlarge, overmuch, overweening, perfect, pervasive, pitiable,
   pitiful, plain, plumb, positive, precious, preposterous, profound,
   pronounced, proper, pure, radical, rank, regrettable, regular,
   remarkable, reprehensible, repulsive, rotten, sad, scandalous,
   schlock, scurvy, shabby, shameful, shattering, sheer, shocking,
   shoddy, signal, sordid, squalid, stark, stark-staring, steep,
   stiff, straight, striking, superior, superlative, surpassing,
   sweeping, terrible, the veriest, thorough, thoroughgoing,
   through-and-through, too bad, too much, total, ubiquitous,
   unbearable, unbridled, unclean, uncommon, unconditional,
   unconscionable, undeniable, undue, unequivocal, universal,
   unmitigated, unqualified, unreasonable, unrelieved, unreserved,
   unrestrained, unrestricted, unspoiled, utter, veritable, vile,
   villainous, wholesale, woeful, wonderful, worst, worthless,
   wretched