How to Use egregious in a Sentence

egregious

adjective

• That is still five years behind the rest of the city, but the gap is no longer so egregious.
  — The Economist, 14 June 2019
• That meant the court wasn’t aware of some of the more egregious incidents.
  — Lynn Thompson, The Seattle Times, 22 June 2017
• With egregious use of the throttle, the Trofeo's tail will wag, but the front axle keeps the thing on a leash.
  — David Beard, Car and Driver, 23 Feb. 2023
• The Campaign to Save Roe is in many ways even more egregious.
  — Gerard Baker, WSJ, 9 May 2022
• For a crew to do that in a playoff game, the conduct has to be egregious.
  — Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 17 Aug. 2020
• If the conduct was found to be egregious, the penalties could triple.
  — Richard Ruelas, The Arizona Republic, 3 Aug. 2022
• The most egregious breach of trust at the Supreme Court that has ever happened.
  — NBC News, 8 May 2022
• But teens say it’s not the most egregious videos that keep them engaged.
  — Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN, 11 Jan. 2023
• Is there one lie that seems to be the most repeated or, in your view, is the most egregious?
  — Meredith Blake Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2020
• All of it makes the lack of action on Bennett even more egregious.
  — Gary Gramling, SI.com, 17 Dec. 2017
• The agency has not said who was behind the group or its most egregious posts.
  — A.c. Thompson, ProPublica, 5 Aug. 2020
• But those close to Comey say that is an egregious misreading of the man.
  — Max Kutner, Newsweek, 13 Apr. 2017
• With the most egregious scheme, everything seems to be fine.
  — Leah Napoliello, Houston Chronicle, 11 July 2020
• The problem is not that Amos leaving was an egregious call.
  — James Hansen, Bon Appétit, 28 Sep. 2023
• Jackie looked around the parking lot to see how egregious her fault might be in his eyes.
  — Chicago Tribune, chicagotribune.com, 2 June 2018
• The tweet amounts to one of many U.S. concessions, though perhaps the most egregious yet.
  — Carine Hajjar, National Review, 18 Feb. 2022
• There were no career-ending gaffes, no egregious flubs that would force him to pull out of the race.
  — Michael Collins, USA TODAY, 7 July 2024
• But that almost feels more egregious than no songs at all.
  — Emily Heller, Vulture, 10 June 2022
• Invariably, in this new light, the act seems egregious.
  — Lidija Haas, The New Republic, 1 July 2019
• The first is that the interest rates on most credit cards are, frankly, egregious.
  — Julian Kheel, CNN Underscored, 18 June 2020
• Then again, sticking around past the end of the party is equally, if not more, egregious.
  — Holiday Mathis, Arkansas Online, 1 Nov. 2022
• The problem was most egregious around March, when the pandemic first hit.
  — Karina Elwood, sun-sentinel.com, 8 Aug. 2020
• The most egregious crime was outright directing him where to point and shoot.
  — Amy Fine Collins, Town & Country, 15 Aug. 2018
• Few men live up to the tales of his egregious violations.
  — Dana Goodyear, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2022
• And the process repeats itself, getting worse and more egregious each time.
  — Jonah Goldberg, National Review, 7 Feb. 2018
• One of the most egregious parts of this is a tax on a recreational home or a vacation home.
  — Christopher Keating, courant.com, 14 Sep. 2017
• When a teacher stands to lose his or her job for egregious behavior, whose side is the union on?
  — Kristen McQueary, chicagotribune.com, 26 Sep. 2019
• None of this will be of any comfort to the Spurs' faithful, for whom the open signal to tank is fairly egregious.
  — Mark Deeks, Forbes, 30 June 2022
• Some will try to diminish the impact of the settlement given the arguably egregious nature of the director’s actions.
  — Michael Peregrine, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024
• The commission has fined stations in egregious circumstances.
  — Ted Johnson, Deadline, 10 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024