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Egregious/ih-gree-juhs / adjective

1.Conspicuously bad or offensive

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"She was almost as far from believing as from wishing it to be sincere; for she had not forgotten that he could mistake, and his assertion of the offer and of her encouragement convinced her that his mistakes could sometimes be very egregious."- Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen
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