释义 |
egregiouse‧gre‧gious /ɪˈɡriːdʒəs/ adjective formal egregiousOrigin: 1500-1600 Latin egregius ‘unusual’, from grex ‘group of animals’ - The situation at Zefco was one of the most egregious examples of discrimination we have seen.
- At last, to my right, the hand of an egregious front-row person rose.
- It was an egregious breach of protocol.
- The legal system currently punishes the most egregious forms of child abuse and neglect, but such crimes are difficult to prove.
- The outcome of childbearing by both teenagers and older women can be egregious.
- This egregious nonsequitur requires further clarification, if only for your myriad younger readers.
- Why should people who do something truly egregious be protected by an arbitrary limit on their punishment?
ADVERB► most· The legal system currently punishes the most egregious forms of child abuse and neglect, but such crimes are difficult to prove.· Nis, a traditional Socialist stronghold, had been site of the most egregious election-day fraud.· But the most egregious sin on the bases by the Mets was in the sixth by Timo Perez with two out. an egregious mistake, failure, problem etc is extremely bad and noticeable—egregiously adverb |