Robert Dallek

Clinton's egregious act of self-indulgence was outdone by an impeachment based not on constitutionally required high crimes and misdemeanors but on a vindictive determination to bring down a president who had offended self-righteous moralists eager to put a different political agenda in place.

American Historian

Matt Gaetz

In some egregious cases, cities built new stadiums even while their citizens were still paying off old stadiums that had since closed. This is corporate welfare run amok, and a gross misuse of American citizens' tax money - something the government must treat with respect.

American Politician

Ingrid Newkirk

Since we can't count on the meat, egg, and dairy industries to protect animals from the most egregious forms of cruelty, what can we, as consumers, do? Opting out of paying someone to allow animals to die in a barn fire or at the slaughterhouse seems pretty reasonable.

British Activist

Abhijit Banerjee

Corruption is a huge problem and the poor and the powerless are often its most egregious victims. But it is not an accident that the most effective bureaucracies in the world rely much more on internal controls rather than on independent ombudsmen.

American Economist

George Ripley

If any imagine from the literary tone of the preceding remarks that we are indifferent to the radical movement for the benefit of the masses which is the crowning glory of the nineteenth century, they will soon discover their egregious mistake.

American Activist

Stacey Abrams

Part of the reason voter suppression works is we've created this culture that says you don't challenge the outcome of elections unless the act is so egregious as to be absolutely clear on its face.

Hope Jahren

My experiences have also convinced me that sexual harassment is very rarely publicly punished after it is reported, and then only after a pattern of relatively egregious offenses.

American Scientist

Rob Lowe

Of the many horrors of divorce, the most egregious is that it robs a kid of the best of both worlds. Dads can do many things that even the best moms can't, and vice versa.

American Actor

Alfred Austin

There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.

English Poet

Ander Crenshaw

The IRS should and must focus on the most important and most egregious and the most in need.

Use 'egregious' to emphasize the severity and negativity of a situation or action.

Negative Intensity

Reserve 'egregious' for very serious mistakes, not for small or common errors.

Not for Minor Mistakes

'Egregious' often conveys a strong sense of disapproval or condemnation.

Strong Disapproval

The positive meaning of 'egregious' is outdated; be aware of context before using it.

Historical Usage

Writers might use 'egregious' positively for stylistic effect or to create an ironic tone.

Literary Interest

Using 'egregious' to mean 'exceptionally good' is rare and can confuse modern readers.

Positive Rarity

 Here I've plotted for you the mean household income received by each fifth and top five percent of the population over the last 20 years. In 1993, the differences between the different quintiles of the population, in terms of income, are fairly egregious. It's not difficult to discern that there are differences.

Does money make you...

 the crude face of domination. Wherever you look around the world, you discover that these are not cultures destined to fade away; these are dynamic living peoples being driven out of existence by identifiable forces that are beyond their capacity to adapt whether it's the egregious deforestation

Wade Davis: Cultures at...

 And the way they make money, the way they create value, is by getting management of corporations to make changes. Now, some will argue that the changes they create, the value they create, is too short-term in nature. And others will say the tactics they use are egregious.

How conscious investors...

 hapless levels of women at the peace table virtually that has not improved over the last decade and above all the ghastly contagion of rape and sexual violence in so many societies indeed perhaps Michelle Bachelet will begin with the most egregious dimensions of

Advocating for gender...

 There's a culture of men helping themselves to women, and in this case, in a seemingly innocuous way, where a woman's body is like a "Get out of the way so I can get to the fries" -- to the most egregious, violent

Tracee Ellis Ross: A...

 Her son was in prison and paying for phone calls often meant she couldn't afford her light bill. See, families can pay as much as a dollar a minute to speak to a loved one in prison or jail. These egregious rates

Bianca Tylek: The...

 but are made from crop waste and are totally compostable at the end of their lives. But first, I need to talk to you about what I consider one of the most egregious offenders in the disposable plastics category.

Eben Bayer: Are...

 But in the most egregious cases of brood parasitism, why don’t host parents take a stand? In fact, hosts will often drive adult brood parasites away from their nests, and many take their defenses further.

Would you raise the bird...

 he's crying he is psychologically tortured this is a painful scene to watch this is an egregious interrogation absolutely awful interrogation the detectives highly coercive methods

Interrogation or Child...

 we can't immediately obviously cancel them. But I also think that there are people who do something so egregious