extremely bad 极糟的;极坏的 egregious behaviour 异乎寻常的行为 an egregious error 异乎寻常的错误
Oxford Collocations DictionaryEgregious is used with these nouns:- error
- example
- sin
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Word Originmid 16th cent. (originally meaning remarkably good): from Latin egregius ‘illustrious’, literally ‘standing out from the flock’, from ex- ‘out’ + grex, greg- ‘flock’. The current sense probably arose as an ironical use.