egregious
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egregious englanniksi
Conspicuous, exceptional, outstanding; usually in a negative sense.
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16thC, Marlowe|Christopher Marlowe, ''Ignoto'',
- I cannot cross my arms, or sigh "Ah me," / "Ah me forlorn!" egregious foppery! / I cannot buss thy fill, play with thy hair, / Swearing by Jove, "Thou art most debonnaire!"
(RQ:Shakespeare All's Well)
(RQ:Landon Francesca Carrara)
22 March 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club ''The Hunger Games''http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-hunger-games,71293/
- When the goal is simply to be as faithful as possible to the material—as if a movie were a marriage, and a rights contract the vow—the best result is a skillful abridgment, one that hits all the important marks without losing anything egregious.
(quote-journal) (Review)|date=21 January 2014|passage=She's sitting opposite a window that's gently breezing into her face, wafting her hair into cover-girl perfection ... It's a little moment that seems to encapsulate her appeal: ... her gorgeousness being so egregious that even breezes oblige with their tousle-fanning effects ...
(RQ:Jonson Poetaster) Can thy Author doe it impudently enough? / ''Hiſt''''rio''. O, I warrant you, Captaine: and ſpitefully inough too; he ha's one of the moſt ouerflowing villanous wits, in ''Rome''. He will ſlander any man that breathes; If he diſguſt him. / ''Tucca''. I'le know the poor, egregious, nitty Raſcall; and he haue ſuch commendable Qualities, I'le cheriſh him: (..)