How To Use Egregious In A Sentence

That's why he's egregiously unqualified for the job.
The most egregious example is in payment protection insurance. Times, Sunday Times
Massachusetts, which they called Vineland, and how the Mexican empire had some knowledge of Accadian astronomy, people are beginning to discover that Columbus himself was after all an egregious humbug. Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science
Campanella begins by looking back to when planning was a profession known for visionaries such as Frederick Law Olmsted, Daniel Burnham, and John Nolan, and then describes how in the postwar years planners "aided and abetted some of the most egregious acts of urban vandalism in American history," i.e., urban renewal. Frank Gruber: Planning and Building for the Future, Dead: Round Up the Usual Suspects
Seriously the media's coverage of women in politics is so egregiously pathetic. Submitted Without Comment (Blog for Democracy)

That's why Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke protested Tuesday what he described as "egregious errors" in some reports, and released a staff memo with details. Separating Fact From Fiction on the Fed's Loans
Have you ever worried that people are grousing about the egregious errors of your judgment?
That's the kind of service recovery you'd expect from a decent company, especially after being publicly outed for egregious customer abuse.
Football is often a particularly egregious example of human reason gone wrong but it is by no means alone. Times, Sunday Times
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The egregious BBC hackette Martha Kearney – slated as successor to Andrew Marr – was interviewed last night by the increasingly mad Paxo on Newsnight. Pig ignorance
In many emerging economies corruption is egregious and overt.
Below are capsulated descriptions of the four most egregious events that took place under the watch of President George W. Bush. Why Is George W. Bush Above The Law
His name was Jimmy Darl Thigpin, and the diminutive or boylike image his name suggested, as with many southern names, was egregiously misleading. The Glass Rainbow
But there's often more egregious abuse among the tiny nonprofits that operate below the radar.
Obviously, when journalists betray their code of ethics by making up stories, or egregious misconduct, they must be punished.
Given this high hurdle, Congress's exercise of power in this realm would be reserved for unusually egregious circumstances.
Implicit in that demand is the widespread sentiment among Republicans that Democrats egregiously politicized the ethics process during the Gingrich probe.
Even more egregiously misleading is the claim that the President abused his power by "acquiescing" in the efforts of the Secret Service to assert a protective function privilege. The White House Rebuttal
In yet another egregious political machination, however, Fujimori supporters in congress unconstitutionally thwarted this popular initiative on a dubious technicality.
Football is often a particularly egregious example of human reason gone wrong but it is by no means alone. Times, Sunday Times
The CIA's fears that there might ultimately be some blowback from its egregious interference in the affairs of Iran were well founded.
What makes that egregious and selfish act more serious than just disgustingly dishonorable is that those fake awards are used to justify and back up applications for employment or appointment, for winning political office, and even claims for veteran's benefits - including government medical treatment for post-traumatic stress syndrome. Media Coverage October
But police will get involved only in egregious cases, preferring to leave corruption inquiries to sports bodies. Times, Sunday Times
I'm still hopeful that Lending Club, in particular, can succeed in this space; it certainly doesn't suffer from the kind of egregiously misleading public communications that Gimein details at Prosper. Felix Salmon - All posts
It is in the cover-up that we usually see the most egregious abuse of a leader's power.
If you do something outrageous or egregious enough, you can become rich and famous.
Falsely claiming that someone (or the majority of some group) is rooting for the bad guys in a war is indeed pretty egregious misbehavior.
One of the most egregious is the alleged "News" of Fox News and News Corp. Brian Ross: Dumping the Tea Party in the Harbor Requires A Boycott and Real Campaign Finance Reform
The second thought has to do with Edwards--Edwards may well turn out to be the king maker in this election--Depending on results of the mega primaries, he could have enough delgates to throw to Obama and sink HRC--certainly the egregious robo calls from the clinton campaign criticizing him on fair trade, when BILL himself signed NAFTA speaks to the disreputability and the sheer perfidiousness of the Clintons and their machine. Waiting for the South Carolina results.
Cactus Kate censured for egregious use of the word numpty and sulks when Moet runs out in Hong Kong video conference centre. Whale Oil Beef Hooked
He is a serial political apologist, saying sorry, sacrificing an aide and obliging his shadow cabinet to pay back their most egregious claims, like medieval Christians buying indulgences.
To overcome this difficulty (called chromatic aberration) telescope glasses were made small and of very long focus: some of them so long that they had no tube, all of them egregiously cumbrous. Pioneers of Science
The desire for vengeance is very strong, simply because the abuses were so egregious.
But there's often more egregious abuse among the tiny nonprofits that operate below the radar.
It was eventually pointed out to her that scuttling constituted a rather egregious instance of sexual harassment.
Governments and others have a correlative duty not to interfere, except to prevent the most egregious forms of behavior.
It was a far more egregious betrayal than the oft-cited Munich Pact. Eric Margolis: The Ghosts of Yalta Haunt Us Today
At worst some egregious minion had conducted a childish private enterprise.
Implicit in that demand is the widespread sentiment among Republicans that Democrats egregiously politicized the ethics process during the Gingrich probe.
Perhaps China will commit some egregious deed that spurs reversal of the present momentum, but now that the military point is made, the more likely avenue of recourse is diplomatic work to mitigate recently shored-up alliances involving India, Japan and South Korea. China's Military Buildup Won't Stop The Defense Bear
Two egregious examples show just how easy it is to subvert the scientific process. Times, Sunday Times
The judge discovered what she called egregious government disclosures to expected witnesses. CNN Transcript Mar 13, 2006
I also found a potentially very useful site called Newsroom101.com, full of exercises in grammar, AP style, and for you Most Egregious Misuse addicts, exercises in easily confusable words. The WritingYA Weblog: Fun for Your Inner Editor
An egregious example of non-compromise and lack of civility took place last July.
All I caught of his mumble was a vague -- "quite correct," than which nothing could have been more egregiously false at bottom -- to my view, at least. 'Twixt Land and Sea
The 9/11 families have suffered egregiously, but unfortunately they remain vulnerable against such unjustifiable parasitic strains. US politicians demand phone-hacking investigation after 9/11 claims
The most egregious example of the present culture is the IPL. Times, Sunday Times
The most egregious examples involve the use of armed force. The Times Literary Supplement
Perhaps most egregiously, Fox News and the Wall Street Journal repeatedly claim there is no such thing as human-caused climate change, significantly retarding progress in the American business and political communities on this most important issue threatening civilization. David Fenton: Don't Let Murdoch Outfox Britain: A Warning From Across the Atlantic
An egregious example of this tendency is the architect whose assembly-line production of faux rococo and ersatz neo-classical facades has transmogrified Mumbai's cityscape.
The most egregious example is in payment protection insurance. Times, Sunday Times
The most egregious example is in payment protection insurance. Times, Sunday Times
Egregious typos in pedantic language post = auto-pwn. Matthew Yglesias » Health Care Plan Getting More Popular
They are not concerned, and claim not to notice, the egregious breach of the compact between society and the media.
But in the field of dendroclimatology, where there has been such egregious violation of the normal scientific practices, I am absolutely blown away that you would not be extra careful not to be associated in any way with the kind of shabby, slip-shod data practices that have been decried by everyone from the blogs to the mainstream media to the journals to a variety of scientific committees. Wilson et al 2007 « Climate Audit
Other courts have been willing to accept the concept of presumed injury to reputation in egregious cases. Christianity Today
And these are clearly egregious cases of misconduct. Times, Sunday Times
In terms of the egregious infliction of pain, it would seem that present practices in industrial farming constitute cruelty to animals and beg for regulative attention.
His failure to limit how much could be paid out over the mis-selling of payment protection insurance was seen as particularly egregious. Times, Sunday Times
M. Ward) teams up with a quintuply ubiquitous, egregiously doe-eyed, vaguely quirky film actress (Zooey Deschanel). NPR Topics: News
Culture often lends itself to misinterpretations, one of the more egregious examples in both literature and cinema being the association of the title Frankenstein not to the scientist from whom the name is drawn, but instead to the monster he creates. Frankenstein (1931)
The Anglican Consultative Council has issued a statement on the divestment controversy which achieves a truly egregious conflation of sanctimoniousness, disingenuousness and sheer moral humbug.
I'm glad to know that somebody else is as chagrined as I about the state of our restroom, although I think this doesn't go far enough, and doesn't address the most egregious behavior.
And while we're currently experiencing a large deposit of sun in the fall of our global warming discontent, the click-clackers of urban centers are causing egregious errors in style by making a run on the bank by drawing summer clothes from their closets: Emily Bracken: Style Guide for Global Warming
I will agree that removing some of the more egregious bribes may be of interest to some of the Senators, BUT, including anti-abortion language, as will be likely in the House version, will notbe. The Volokh Conspiracy » “It May Be Clever, but It Is Not Constitutional”
Other courts have been willing to accept the concept of presumed injury to reputation in egregious cases. Christianity Today
A nation that's grown numb to being spied on, having its privacy egregiously invaded and the having its Constitution generally flouted is at greater risk of losing its gun rights. So Who Knows?
Journalists are running back and forth across town to find the most egregious technical errors and blatant fraud.
They are helpful when it comes to spotting egregious errors, but often fail to spot homophones, as these words are only incorrect in context, and context is something that Word et al do not do well. The right rites of writing « Write Anything
Various items have been seized in recent days and weeks, ranging from illicit consignments of cigarettes to more egregious commodities such as illegal drugs.
Even more egregious was an early doctrine of another group of supposed free-market advocates, the supply-siders.
Still, there are egregious cases of blatant exploitation of the suffering of victims which apparently evoke no outrage, no vexation among the supporters of the war.
Virginia Attorney Gen. Ken Cuccinelli R is accusing Arlington County of engaging in "legal thuggery" with an "an egregiously frivolous" and "dirty" lawsuit against the state's proposed construction of High Occupancy Toll lanes along I-95 in Northern Virginia. Cuccinelli accuses Arlington of playing 'dirty' with HOT lanes lawsuit
I've never seen such an egregious act of political opportunism or shameless trafficking in human misery.
The book is compiled and made public every year by Citizens Against Government Waste, which also dispenses "Oinker Awards" to highlight what it calls egregious examples of pork barrel requests. Politics Daily
Finally, Jackie Chan is back and more egregious than ever in The Spy Next Door. Weekend Box Office – AVATAR Back At Number One for a Fifth Consecutive Weekend – Collider.com
Keep in mind that I found these egregious examples of bias in a single issue of a single newspaper, randomly chosen.
Serious question, how is cutting more out of the budget egregiously out of balance with taxing people more? Obama and the budget: giving away too much? | Michael Tomasky
Allies of convenience that are well known to be guilty of egregious acts are now hauled into the dock as war criminals as soon as we have the chance.
We have seen money inundate the hedge fund community, adding an additional layer of leveraged speculation on top of an already egregiously overleveraged financial system.
No, the egregious violation was going past the sacred 51 day deadline for replacing a name on the ballot.
Mr. Mitra said while "there are no immediate or egregious credit concerns, we are looking for policy signals and supporting actions that will better assure us about medium-term appropriateness of the policy framework and an ability to also meet unanticipated shocks. Moody's: Budget Consistent With Rating Outlook
But its egregious ability is that, he can weave all kinds of things into integrated, actual and logistic oneiric events, which are different of species, spaces, and times.
Though egregious cases have to be covered by the law, this is surely best left to common sense and parental responsibility. Times, Sunday Times
It had become'the most egregious fiscal and military country in the world '. Times, Sunday Times
In 2009, the Arlington County Board of Supervisors filed an egregiously frivolous lawsuit against these federal and state agencies as well as officials in their personal capacities; even audaciously accusing those officials of civil rights violations for trying to advance a transportation solution. Cuccinelli accuses Arlington of playing 'dirty' with HOT lanes lawsuit
The same people who cringe when words such as ‘imply’ and ‘infer’ are confused react without a trace of embarrassment to even the most egregious of numerical solecisms.
It was held that notwithstanding the solicitor's lapses leading to the pretrial, they did not, alone or in combination, amount to egregious error, nor was the plaintiff's settlement improvident.
The misuse of the grand jury by prosecutors is among the most egregious abuses of all.
All sins were forgiven, no lunkheaded investment was too egregious to merit a bailout. Capitalism 101: The Money Tree
The suffering that contributes to our own comforts is an especially egregious "loss of memory. Boycotts Must Happen in the Heart
This month has seen three egregious examples of poor scientific practice. Times, Sunday Times
An egregious beauish appearance came up to Miss, and said, Pamela
It will be used in egregious cases, where deceit is clear. Times, Sunday Times
Why do you think the specialized business press continues to make what you consider such an egregious and howling error?
In the most egregious cases, speed was used to bait rivals into disclosing their positions before ripping them off. Times, Sunday Times
Music companies are more egregious in their abuse of consumers than the movie companies.
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The politicians of both political parties are bragging that they've "reformed" welfare by kicking the most egregious moochers off the dole.
I almost burst into laughter as I looked at this egregious old guy, as emolliated in his comical caricature of himself as M. de Charlus, paralysed and polite, was tragical. Time Regained
Others aim for the equivalent of a kegger, meaning that only the most egregious speech is barred. Mr. Know-It-All: Bannable Blog Behavior, Scam Bait, MySpace Geezers
If the gentlemen's code lauded self-sacrifice, its opposite selfishness - was behavior that, if egregious enough, could defrock a gentleman.
If anything proves the old canard that most psychiatrists are crazier than their patients, it is the egregious Finch.
The most egregious errors were on public investment and employment. Times, Sunday Times
Perhaps what's most egregious about Verizon's error is that it had seemingly been going on for at least a year, apparently without action or acknowledgment from the company. Verizon has strong service record, despite refund snafu
And when we see the egregious way that the Government sold out these people, it sickens us.
As for why door blockers, pole huggers and other egregious violators of subway etiquette do not experience the same opprobrium, perhaps another study is in order.
Football is often a particularly egregious example of human reason gone wrong but it is by no means alone. Times, Sunday Times
Duckliver you have posted some notions that truely make a well educated middle aged lady gasp, with the egregiousness of your miseducation. Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off
If denial of Leibniz equivalence is a blunder so egregious that no competent mathematician would make it, then our standards for competence have become unattainably high, for they must exclude David Hilbert in 1915 at the height of his powers. The Hole Argument
Every institution (like a church) has a few egregious sinners affiliating with them. The Volokh Conspiracy » The “Racist” Charge
Experience equips you with a series of conditioned reflexes which can protect you from some of the more egregious follies, like changing a light bulb while standing in bath water or cutting your toe-nails with garden shears.
I don't think you need a defector to tell you how foul he was and how egregious were his human rights abuses…
The most egregious examples involve the use of armed force. The Times Literary Supplement
The most egregious example of the present culture is the IPL. Times, Sunday Times
I am advocating that bans on reimportation be lifted so that companies cannot engage in egregious price discrimination. Quack Remedy, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
The idea that if one gives up a customary religious practice such as purdah, that one is ceasing to be a Muslim altogether is an egregious misrepresentation of what it takes to be a Muslim.
But there are also the white clergy (and rabbi); usually, they were pusillanimous and hesitant to move more than a step or two beyond their conservative members, most of whom supported the egregious Jew-turned-Episcopalian Mayor Henry Loeb, who rivals in obduracy George W. Bush. Balkinization
The IRF Act defines particularly severe violations of religious freedom as systematic, ongoing, egregious violations.
The current law in Ontario is that, in order to be ordered to pay costs personally, a solicitor, acting in bad faith, must be guilty of outrageous conduct that is contumacious and so egregious as to engage the contempt powers of the court.
Falsely claiming that someone (or the majority of some group) is rooting for the bad guys in a war is indeed pretty egregious misbehavior.
And these are clearly egregious cases of misconduct. Times, Sunday Times
This month has seen three egregious examples of poor scientific practice. Times, Sunday Times
In the aftermath of 'Himalayagate,' we glaciologists are hypersensitive to egregious errors in supposedly authoritative sources," Graham Cogley of Trent University in Canada told the BBC, referring to a debunked claim that the world's glaciers were melting so fast that those in the Himalayas could vanish by 2035. FOXNews.com
Schafer continues: ‘At the time I was among those shocked by my colleague's unmannerly attitude, which seemed so egregious that Time picked up his argument in its next issue.’
And just as the Inuit have many words for snow, we have a plethora of epithets for excrement, ranging all the way from the gutlessly genteel to the egregiously gross.
But I find it hard to deny that egregious self-importance in individuals is one of the defining characteristics of our society.
In addition, the Fed did nothing about one of the practices that consumer groups find particularly egregious, that of "reordering" how transactions are processed from highest amount to lowest amount, regardless of the order that they reached the bank. Chicagotribune.com -
The banker noted that it was the brazenness of the letter ... that was particularly egregious.
The immediate contents of direct experience cannot be reduced to the mere sensory datum of Hume, the latter in fact being rather egregious abstractions from the extraordinary wealth of actual experience. Think Progress » Clinton: Media, Politicians Shouldn’t Fuel ‘Hatriot’ Groups With Anti-Government Rhetoric That Inspired McVeigh
The most egregious propaganda was in history and civics books.
The most egregious of these is the tendency, exemplified by Norm and Omar, to abstract a situation from the mesh of geopolitical considerations in which it is embedded and reduce it to a stark moral question.
It was an egregious breach of protocol.
Priests can be and are laicized and forbidden to act as priests - and they should be when they egregiously betray their office.
Spain committed its own fouls, to be sure, but in contrast to the vicious ones of the Dutch -- the most egregious coming early in the game, when Nigel de Jong planted his cleats in the chest of Xabi Alonso -- Spain's fouls looked like rightful self-defense, an impression reinforced the more frequently de Jong's cleated foul was replayed in slow-motion. Carla Seaquist: World Cup Final: Finally, the Good Guys Win
Have you ever worried that people are grousing about the egregious errors of your judgment?
I can tell you from my personal experience as a P attorney in med mal cases, if the tort reform measures so often bandied about were implemented, many very deserving Ps would not be compensated and some very egregious medical malpractice would go unsanctioned. The Volokh Conspiracy » An Act for the Relief of Sick and Disabled Seamen
The most egregious environmental villains in the tableware industry are probably plastic disposables.
The most egregious errors were on public investment and employment. Times, Sunday Times
Many of the other figures involved in the operation were egregious intriguers and strivers, mediocrities for whom the CIA's money was a godsend.
This week, we'll be collecting instances of egregious liberal tunnel vision on the West Wing.
A particularly egregious incident of bullyragging the wild animals that we saw during this trip to Yellowstone involved someone using their vehicle to try to force a bear to run up a tree.
Two egregious examples show just how easy it is to subvert the scientific process. Times, Sunday Times
By my soul, Jack, if I had not been taken thus egregiously cropsick, I would have been up with thee, and the lady too, before now. Clarissa Harlowe
Imperial conquest, here, was represented as just retribution for egregious sin. The Times Literary Supplement
Randolph, though an egregious gossip, says of the Four Maries, "they are all good," but Knox writes that "the ballads of that age" did witness to the "bruit" or reputation of these maidens. John Knox and the Reformation
All are thought to exemplify egregious examples of where free speech can harm. Times, Sunday Times
The public has a compelling right to know about egregious examples of nepotism and favoritism like this by public officials.
Many of these rulings are judgment calls that cannot be reversed by an appellate court unless the trial judge makes an egregiously bad judgment.
Imperial conquest, here, was represented as just retribution for egregious sin. The Times Literary Supplement
Famously, Newman and his soon-to-be-wife Joanne Woodward became friends with Gore Vidal, and in the most egregious example of "bearding" in history, Woodward agreed to act, temporarily, as Vidal's "fiancée" to exempt him from conservative disapproval Mail & Guardian Online
an egregious lie
However, the list is effective at blocking the most egregious spammers so it should result in a significant reduction in spam.
He singled out several egregious examples of bogus challenges, including an attempt, false on its face, to disallow entire sheets of signatures on the grounds that they were not notarized.
Bbbbbuuuut … Syria and Saudi Arabia, and Egypt, and Jordan and pretty much everybody else bans parties many of them arabs, this is such a egregious case of double standars, once you start demanding from the Saudis to stop banning arab parties you should not expect it from Israel. Matthew Yglesias » Israel Bans Arab Parties
Still, the human rights NGOs have done important work in popularizing the idea of human rights and in drawing international attention to egregious violations.
There can be few more egregious examples. Times, Sunday Times
There can be few more egregious examples. Times, Sunday Times
That is an egregious violation of the responsibility a scholar has.
The same year, in the egregiously misnamed Civil Rights Cases, the court struck down the last great achievement of the Reconstruction Congress, the Civil Rights Act of 1875.
The most egregious of these is the tendency, exemplified by Norm and Omar, to abstract a situation from the mesh of geopolitical considerations in which it is embedded and reduce it to a stark moral question.
Though egregious cases have to be covered by the law, this is surely best left to common sense and parental responsibility. Times, Sunday Times
It will be used in egregious cases, where deceit is clear. Times, Sunday Times
People have said to him since then that the loss of the title might not be such a bad thing, that such an egregious collapse might well help focus the mind and restore desire in the long run.
But the most egregious sin on the bases by the Mets was in the sixth by Timo Perez with two out.
But, still, egregious errors cannot pass without condemnation. Times, Sunday Times
Oh, that's right ... they're only interested in screwing 99% of Americans while giving egregious loopholes, tax cuts, back room deals and promoting corruption. GOP: Dems' health care reform plan 'a prescription for disaster'
Cursing himself for what he called his egregious folly in making himself the slave of a mere lady's attendant, and for having given the parish, should they know of her refusal, a chance of sneering at him -- certainly a ground for thinking less of his standing than before -- he went home to the Old House, and walked indecisively up and down his back-yard. Desperate Remedies
Leaving such egregious errors unchallenged is one of several reasons why ID will never be taken seriously outside the cloister. A Disclaimer for Behe?
This is not some minor dispute over a footnote to history but rather raises the possibility of one of the most egregious misrepresentations by a US Administration.
And when I shot a glare at one of the more egregious loud talkers, she looked down her long, expensively-altered snoot at my volunteer nametag and hissed, ‘Oh, it's not like you paid to get in here and see her.’
Good Billions After Bad," by Donald Barlett and James Steele, the Ferrante and Teicher of investigative reporters (I now egregiously dated myself as a product of the pre-internet, pre-electric typewriter age), underscores in impressive detail, culling lots of records, what observers of the mess sort of knew, namely that a whole lot of money went to folks who didn't need it and weren't going to use it for very noble purposes. James Warren: This Week in Magazines: Drive-Through Mastectomies and Glenn Beck Gives Us Some Tongue
But, still, egregious errors cannot pass without condemnation. Times, Sunday Times
In the world of video rental stores, there is no sin as egregious as failing to rewind the video.
But police will get involved only in egregious cases, preferring to leave corruption inquiries to sports bodies. Times, Sunday Times
All are thought to exemplify egregious examples of where free speech can harm. Times, Sunday Times
His failure to limit how much could be paid out over the mis-selling of payment protection insurance was seen as particularly egregious. Times, Sunday Times
Or worse; the suggested relationship to poetry might prove congenial to those who overhastily assert that much of contemporary theoretical discourse in the humanities, pretending to describe sociohistorical reality, actually commits egregious crimes of genre with every line it writes: Texts that would otherwise be recognized as impressively bad prose-poems instead pass for something called theory (or theoretically-informed analysis). Sociopolitical (i.e., _Romantic_) Difficulty in Modern Poetry and Aesthetics
They are so unprofessional - if a newspaper or a broadcast programme made such an egregious slur they'd print a correction or broadcast an apology.
If a person computed the Grotesque $dollars$ spent on Iraq, MIC No-bids, this Bank-Buddy Bailout and a few of the other egregious misuses of taxpayer and fiat dollars -- and divided by the number of Americans and Iraqis (include those that were alive before we exterminated them for their resources ... and shared democracy with them) -- WHAT COULD HAVE BEEN DONE WITH THESE FUNDS?! Big Bankers Blink; Paulson's Unprecedented Power; Shock and Awe Hints at the Good and Evil We May Soon Face
Had Gyi not perpetrated his egregious war-veteran fraud, he now could be widely revered, and deservedly so, as one of the finest hand-to-hand combat instructors ever to teach on American soil. Dr Gyi
The same can go for adult band members whose ebullience of spirit, exhaustion, or carelessness result in loosened ties, crooked hats, lost instruments, or other egregious failures of decorum.
The egregious schemes were targeted mostly at the sale of investment products. Times, Sunday Times
But the most egregious sin on the bases by the Mets was in the sixth by Timo Perez with two out.
Today, the most egregious Roundheads are to be found in New Labour; but that does not mean that the Liberal Democrats have abandoned their heritage as Diggers, Levellers and Fifth Monarchy Men.
Vhen next he looks through Galilaeo's eyes; ind hence th 'egregious wizard fhall foredoom The fate of Louis, and the fall of Rome. The Works of the English Poets.: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical
Most egregiously, it guts programs like the Land and Water Conservation Fund and is loaded with policy changes that have no place in an appropriations bill. Rep. Mike Honda: Republicans Throw Conservation to Curb, Eviscerate EPA, and Pump Pollutants Into America's Air, Water and Land
It was an egregious error for a statesman to show such ignorance.
However, many of the apartment complexes here in Kent and some of the exurbs at least in design appear like a co-housing design (lots of inner courtyards, some isolation from parked cars) than the concrete cubbyhole condos that infected the city during the reign of the egregious Greg Nichols. Co-Housing Trend Hits Seattle « PubliCola
The use of the word literal is so egregiously wrong, I thought perhaps it had to be on purpose. Is This Line From Claire Messud’s ‘The Emperor’s Children’ the Worst Line in a Book Published in 2006? « One-Minute Book Reviews
Is it the fact that consumers react only in instances of egregious over packaging or are people becoming more and more aware of packaging and excessiveness in general? 21 posts from April 2008
Critics decry episodes such as this one as egregious examples of a general bias in the obesity research community.
Still, lifting some of the most egregious constraints--namely the thicket of protections for tenured teachers--in union contracts will likely do some good. Paras Bhayani: Epic Miscalculation Has Illinois Teachers Unions in the Crosshairs
This guy is simply the biggest ham in Quebec theatre, and the longer he is allowed to perform a role, the more egregious he gets.
More egregious for one's sense of the volume's trustworthiness, because less easy to spot, is the tendency to mistranscribe quotations. The Times Literary Supplement
In many emerging economies corruption is egregious overt.
In the most egregious cases, speed was used to bait rivals into disclosing their positions before ripping them off. Times, Sunday Times
Someone at Pegasus should have alerted Larson to such excesses and urged him to stick with facts and avoid most if not all his egregious personalia. Thomas Larson's 'The Saddest Music Ever Written,' reviewed by Michael Dirda

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