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adjective

egregious

outstandingly bad; shocking

In a sentence

Six example sentences with egregious, each labelled with its topic.

  • The judge called the paperwork failure egregious and ordered the agency to redo every application filed that year.

    Law

  • Missing three open layups in the final minute was an egregious collapse for a team chasing the title.

    Basketball

  • The patch notes apologized for an egregious bug that let players walk through walls in the final dungeon.

    Gaming

  • The fund's egregious fees swallowed a third of the returns, and regulators eventually forced a refund.

    Finance

  • The paper contained an egregious error, a decimal point placed one column to the right, and it was retracted.

    Science

  • The most egregious continuity slip shows the hero's coffee cup vanishing and reappearing three times in one scene.

    Movies

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