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egregious

(adj): prenominal), egregious, flagrant, glaring, gross, rank -- (conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible
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9 months ago yarb said:

Meanwhile 'outstanding' has evolved to mean (more often than not) 'outstandingly good'.

9 months ago kewpid said:

The archaic meaning is 'outstanding'. But it has evolved to mean 'outstandingly bad'.

10 months ago logophile said: kewpid?

It means "conspicuously bad or offensive."

10 months ago kewpid said:

To be outstanding.

10 months ago jennarenn said:

Sometimes a word slips itself into every available conversation, until I begin to annoy even myself. This weekend it was egregious.

about 1 year ago nikshah said: Ah, for Marta K do I leave this word today

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