What's the difference between deplorable and egregious?

Deplorable


Definition:

  • (a.) Worthy of being deplored or lamented; lamentable; causing grief; hence, sad; calamitous; grievous; wretched; as, life's evils are deplorable.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We write to deplore the coalition's withdrawal of support from the hugely successful school sport partnerships (" Michael Gove's plan to slash sports funding in schools splits cabinet ", News).
  • (2) The standards committee report by a cross-party group of MPs said it "deplored" stings but would "not hesitate to act in such cases if wrongdoing had occurred".
  • (3) We deplore the proposal of the secretary of state Eric Pickles to “take over” the democratically elected council in Tower Hamlets ( Report , 5 November).
  • (4) In a decision described as deplorable by some, it emerged on Sunday that Athens had refused to endorse an EU statement criticising the crackdown on activists and dissidents under the Chinese president, Xi Jinping .
  • (5) While deplorable and to a degree self-defeating, this insouciant defiance also makes a grim kind of sense, both historically and reinforced by recent events.
  • (6) "The way ministers have sought to blame civil servants in the Department for Transport before any of the facts have been established has been deplorable, but sadly not out of character," said Mark Serwotka, the PCS general secretary.
  • (7) Deplores the continuing flows of mercenaries into the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya and calls upon all Member States to comply strictly with their obligations under paragraph 9 of resolution 1970 (2011) to prevent the provision of armed mercenary personnel to the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya; Ban on flights 17.
  • (8) It’s a sign there is an utter ruthlessness and depravity about this movement which is hideous and sickening and deplorable.
  • (9) Those who deplore Ed Miliband for taking money from Unite, or deplore David Cameron for taking money from millionaires, should support the alternative.” On Saturday Labour’s leader Ed Miliband accused the government of turning a blind eye to the financial affairs of the rich, and claimed the revelations over the industrial scale of tax avoidance at HSBC in Switzerland crystallised a “deeply divisive injustice”.
  • (10) She depicted Burkhardt's attitude and response as "deplorable" and "unacceptable".
  • (11) The unprecedented rise in the cost of living and the deplorable state of hospitals have put the people in the exact position that Museveni and his cronies want them to be – a place where many are too worried about their next meal to care about abstract political ideas and rights.
  • (12) He deplored permissivism, and was not frightened of being quoted to that effect; he was a member of the British Catholic Stage Guild, and served as its vice-president for some time.
  • (13) From Reuters: "The secretary general said in a statement he was surprised this deplorable crime would happen during the visit of a team of international investigators with the United Nations who are already tasked with investigating chemical weapons use," the official news agency Mena said.
  • (14) They are Americans, and they deserve your respect.” The chairman of the Republican National Committee (RNC), Reince Priebus, echoed Pence in a statement, saying: “The truly deplorable thing in this race is the shameful level of condescension and disrespect Hillary Clinton is showing to her fellow citizens.” Trump, per his habit, initially responded on Twitter .
  • (15) This deficit model is invoked to explain the commonly deplored typically male behavioral and attitudinal characteristics.
  • (16) Because, as Rafael Behr so astutely observed recently , when immigration minister Mark Harper's rhetoric, in justifying this deplorable campaign, strays in the same breath on to immigration in general putting "pressure on our infrastructure", the distinction between legal and illegal immigrant is lost.
  • (17) On Twitter on Saturday, the longtime Trump confidante and former Nixon operative Roger Stone embraced the “deplorables” phrase , sharing a meme that grouped supporters of the Republican nominee, including the InfoWars.com host Alex Jones , in a takeoff of the action movie The Expendables.
  • (18) Errors of famous scientists in the younger past are deplorable.
  • (19) "There is no consistency in the outlook of the Nigerian maniacs: they use weapons produced by the very capitalist system they claim to deplore, for instance.
  • (20) Under pressure from Leveson, Gove did agree that both phone hacking and bribery or corruption of officials were to be deplored.

Egregious


Definition:

  • (a.) 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.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The most egregious failure was by WHO in the delay in sounding the alarm,” said Prof Ashish Jha, the director of the Harvard Global Health Institute.
  • (2) Yes, at the 2010 Conservative conference the party announced a similar cliff-edge at the higher rate tax threshold as a way of effectively means-testing child benefit payments, but that was eventually removed and replaced with a less egregious taper at the 2012 budget.
  • (3) Revenge would be sweet, having been knocked out by PSG last season , while Chelsea’s Champions League win in 2012 came at the end of a campaign where domestically they struggled – though not quite as egregiously – after André Villas-Boas left mid-season and was replaced by Roberto Di Matteo.
  • (4) The British ambassador to Ukraine , Simon Smith, called Yanukovych's decision "an egregious piece of cynicism".
  • (5) Now it’s time for clarity on the skyline.” Looming 160m above Fenchurch Street, towering over several conservation areas and butting into the background of most views of London, the Walkie-Talkie is perhaps the most egregious example of such incoherence.
  • (6) However, despite the country’s belligerent behaviour in the region and its egregious human rights record, which have long left it isolated, there is an opportunity for engagement given that prominent regime officials have indicated a willingness to reform.
  • (7) The commercial world – with the egregious exception of the "too big to fail" banks – is run on empirical principles: companies that work tend to survive and thrive, while those that don't fall by the wayside.
  • (8) This egregious abuse of psychiatric authority contributed to the critical movement against psychiatry and to strict laws limiting and sometimes banning resort to psychosurgery.
  • (9) That helped cement the power of the money men in Westminster, with Sir Fred Goodwin's knighthood being just the most egregious example of government believing the mystique the financial sector wove around itself.
  • (10) "This was in response to a very specific, particularly egregious incident in which one editor of the journal was ­letting in a paper that clearly did not meet the standards of quality for the journal."
  • (11) Wu says the way to fix this intolerable situation is to persuade President Obama to fix it: "The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act is egregiously over-broad in a way that has clearly imposed on the rights and liberties of Americans.
  • (12) The union president labelled it an “egregious and highly regrettable error”.
  • (13) "We will tackle the most egregious examples of cheap alcohol by banning sales of alcohol below the value of alcohol duty and VAT," he said.
  • (14) He was held as an “enemy combatant”, tortured, and refused a lawyer for three and half years – to this day, one of the most egregious violations of the constitution by the Bush administration.
  • (15) At the time, the prime minister said that was morally wrong and "particularly egregious".
  • (16) I think it is one of the most egregious examples of the problems of having the death penalty that I have seen in 20 years in the field,” said Dieter.
  • (17) MRI scans have been singularly effective at capturing the public imagination, but the claims made – this part of the brain is lighting up, ergo, this baby or mother is experiencing love – are egregious.
  • (18) Will Dave emulate his old patron, Michael Howard, and sack Boris for an egregious misjudgment ?
  • (19) Or perhaps it was the chance to bring down a man they both held responsible for egregious terrorist attacks and terrorism sponsorship, notably the Lockerbie PanAm bombing and Libya's support for the IRA.
  • (20) This was one reason why he was later disdainful of educational fads, and of "Britain's egregiously underperforming comprehensive schools".