Crossword-Solution: EGREGIOUS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Egregious | 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. |
We have 17 clues for the answer “EGREGIOUS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| outstandingly bad | 1 answer |
| Outrageously reprehensible | 1 answer |
| Extraordinarily bad | 1 answer |
| Beyond the pale | 10 answers |
| A GLARING BLUNDER | 10 answers |
| flagrant | 19 answers |
| arrant | 23 answers |
| Big Time | 30 answers |
| glaring | 38 answers |
| notorious | 43 answers |
| Blatant | 44 answers |
| Baddie | 55 answers |
| Unconventional | 62 answers |
| Conspicuous | 68 answers |
| Infamous | 70 answers |
| Rank | 75 answers |
| Disreputable | 79 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EEATR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with EGREGIOUS (5)
The League works to abolish the new monopolies by publishing articles, talking with public officials, boycotting egregious offenders, and in the future may intervene in court cases.
But you can't understand that now, and you had better not try; for if you do, you will be certain to go fancying some egregious nonsense, and making yourself miserable about it.” “Then I won't,” said Diamond.
This is a most egregious mistake, especially in respect to the subtle and complex spiritual experiences which the more deeply subjective poetry embodies.
But, as I smoked a grim segar that morning in a corner of the chaise, no doubt I considered, in the first place, that the letter-post had been invented, and admitted privately to myself, in the second, that it would have been highly possible to write her on a piece of paper, seal it, and send it skimming by the mail, instead of going personally into these egregious dangers, and through a country that I beheld crowded with gibbets and Bow Street officers.
According to the latter, every lad who goes to sea is an egregious ass; never to forget your umbrella through a long life would seem a higher and wiser flight of achievement than to go smiling to the stake; and so long as you are a bit of a coward and inflexible in money matters, you fulfil the whole duty of man.
Quotes with EGREGIOUS (3)
Religion has the capacity to silence critical thinking and create blindness in entire groups of people. It can infect the minds of followers so completely as to allow the most egregious sexual acts against children and others to go unchallenged for centuries.
Compassion without discipline is egregious self-sabotage.
I suggest that the Western impact, at least in nineteenth-century China, was overstated (and misstated) by an earlier generation of American historians. An especially egregious example of this, I argue, was American treatment of the Opium War, the objective importance of which was not nearly so great as we — and an almost unanimous corps of Chinese historians — have imagined.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NY Sun, NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (2003–2021).