(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".
Gregarious
Definition:
(a.) Habitually living or moving in flocks or herds; tending to flock or herd together; not habitually solitary or living alone.
Example Sentences:
(1) Rubens is not a solitary source of painterly genius, but a gregarious master who never hid his own quotations of earlier art.
(2) Cytological features are in agreement with the gregarious behaviour of cockroaches.
(3) Path analysis procedures were used to test a causal model that concerns possible antecedent conditions in relation to gregarious drinking patterns.
(4) He inherited his father's calculation and his mother's gregariousness and style.
(5) Backstage, Gabbana – the more gregarious of the two – will talk about fashion as fantasy, last season explaining his vision thus: “I have this life … I want to be happy.
(6) Famously, she lit a lamp in her window, as a welcoming sign to the vast Irish diaspora; deliberately – there was no lack of steel in her campaign, and she quickly showed a willingness to exploit the gaffes of often incompetent rivals – she made herself less private and austere, acquiring suits by Irish designers, trying, above all, to be more open and approachable, more, she told Byrne, like her own warm, gregarious mother.
(7) The imposing and gregarious Midlands-born banker tried and failed to buy Northern Rock before it was nationalised in February 2008 and then missed out on 318 Royal Bank of Scotland branches last year.
(8) Little wonder that tactless buyers at Asda rubber-stamped the rapidly withdrawn "Mental Patient" fancy dress costume when "mental" is routinely worn as a badge of gregarious honour.
(9) These patients also showed significant differences on the MCMI asocial, gregarious, and neurotic depression scales.
(10) Passive avoidance learning occupies a central role in accounts of disinhibited behavior, ranging from psychopaths' persistent criminality (Hare 1970) to extraverts' gregariousness (Gray, 1972).
(11) Bank swallows nest gregariously in colonies usually ranging from 10 to 300 nests.
(12) When we sit down for a more formal interview in his Manhattan hotel room a few hours later, Ross's earlier gregarious anecdotes are replaced by aphorisms that could come straight off one of those inspirational posters you see in recruitment consultant offices.
(13) Light-microscopically, pleomorphic tumor cells clustered gregariously and often formed alveolar structures.
(14) American Indians and Hispanos have a greater tendency to drink gregariously, to drink more, and to have more disruption in social role functioning.
(15) Females of two hamster species with contrasting degrees of gregariousness were tested for social influences on the timing of sexual maturation.
(16) He is a gregarious media grandee, who was born into the royal family of UK showbusiness.
(17) 2) Traditionals, healthy at both ages, were gregarious and nurturant.
(18) "Affectionately known as Corporal Hamer in the office, he was a gregarious figure, a wonderful friend who was hugely popular with his colleagues.
(19) When female dwarf hamsters (Phodopus sungorus campbelli), a gregarious species, were housed with an adult male at weaning, they began estrous cycles significantly earlier than when they were housed alone or with their family.
(20) Experiments were performed to evaluate the status of antibacterial defensive responses in M. sexta larvae parasitized by this gregarious endoparasitoid.