(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".
Execrable
Definition:
(a.) Deserving to be execrated; accursed; damnable; detestable; abominable; as, an execrable wretch.
Example Sentences:
(1) All the statistics released about the Work Programme show execrable results, and yet we've heard nothing about penalties, or remaking the contracts, or rethinking the system.
(2) A critical review of epidemiological and experimental data from the literature has been made in an attempt to present an objective picture of this controversial and sensitive question and to encourage further research, which may ultimately determine whether arsenic deserves its execrable reputation.
(3) LP: My only experience of this was - and this might end up selling a lot of videos of a film that no one's ever seen - I produced a really execrable film in the mid-70s called Lisztomania, and I hope that no one here's seen it.
(4) Unrecorded in the YouGov poll are people who dislike all-women shortlists but dislike yet more the reason for their continued existence: the very culture that just created the execrable, the relentlessly mocked Woman Who Made up Her Mind .
(5) Its performance over the scandal of Winterbourne View was execrable, and this seemed to speak of much wider and more fundamental problems in its approach, resourcing and leadership.
(6) For the dark knight, readers will recall with horror George Clooney's bemused and Bat-nippled turn in the execrable Batman and Robin in 1997.
(7) The narrator, Nancy Hawkins, is a woman editor in a publishing house in the 1950s; her sworn enemy the execrable, self-congratulatory writer Hector Bartlett, to whom she refers to as the pisseur de copie.
(8) They included "the massacre of people solely for reasons of their religious adherence"; "the execrable practice[s] of decapitation, crucifixion and hanging of corpses in public places"; "the choice imposed on Christians and Yazidis between conversion to Islam, payment of a tax (jizya) and exodus"; "the forced expulsion of tens of thousands of people, including children, old people, pregnant women and the sick"; "the abduction of women and girls belonging to the Yazidi and Christian communities as war booty (sabaya)", and "the imposition of the barbaric practice of infibulation".
(9) PII certificates, he said, had previously been greeted by "howls of execration".
(10) Those movies include turkeys such as Jack and Jill and the execrable That's My Boy , though the rather better-performing Grown Ups 2 does not feature for statistical purposes because it falls outside the time period being factored in by Forbes.
(11) Lucas, the ultimate fanboy, has been the biggest culprit with his execrable prequels.
(12) I can already hear the howls of execration: now you're claiming that this cooling is the result of warming!
(13) His sweeping pronouncements never fail to set the leaves aflutter in the groves of academe, and his name surely is execrated in cultural studies departments from sea to shining sea across America.
(14) I’d like to be there, watching, when the old family films are played, and I’d like to impose my execrable musical taste on my friends and watch their faces as they suffer it.
(15) Ford, who is currently promoting his role in the sci-fi movie Ender's Game , is also taking a role in the latest film in Sylvester Stallone's execrable Expendables series .