egregiously

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Recent Examples of egregiously The court ruled that assigning an egregiously high bail, despite a defendant’s income declaration, was just a way of detaining them. — Evelyn Ronan, Sacbee.com, 20 Aug. 2026 Some members of the conservative majority have, on occasion, exhibited a willingness to stand up to Trump’s most egregiously unlawful actions. — Ruth Marcus, New Yorker, 26 June 2026 There are significant worries that AI can readily go off the rails or otherwise dispense unsuitable or even egregiously inappropriate mental health advice. — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026 In fact, the performance is so egregiously underwhelming that any masochists who plan on seeing it anyway should probably look up clips of the real Eisenhower before hitting theaters. — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 26 May 2026 After all, wasn’t the American labor movement born out of the need to address the most egregiously cruel working conditions? — Tracy Grant, Encyclopedia Britannica, 19 May 2026 Mind you, the ShipSpotting Vietnam channel has seen fit to slap an egregiously dishonest thumbnail on this video, clearly faked up using AI. — Loz Blain may 14, New Atlas, 14 May 2026 Aside from Chenoweth, two other women were, to my mind, egregiously overlooked. — Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 6 May 2026 Drinks are egregiously expensive, unfortunately. — Andrea Domanick, Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for egregiously
Adverb
  • Within this literature, no decade is more doom-laden than the nineteen-thirties, when misguided hope and willful blindness led the world’s democracies to grossly underestimate the threat of Fascism.
    — Beverly Gage, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2026
  • Oates, 75, was responsible for the 2024 incident in Granite Bay, but not cited or found to be grossly negligent, records show.
    — Sharon Bernstein, Sacbee.com, 24 Sep. 2026
Adverb
  • Time, not thriftily spent but flagrantly wasted at cards or the wheel, is brought to a standstill right at the moment of its greatest potentiality—this would have to be the ultimate payoff.
    — Artforum, Artforum, 28 Sep. 2026
  • The figure’s legs in Moving My Chair (2019) are nearly twice the length of her torso, and here as in nearly every foot McNeely painted, toes are flagrantly flexed.
    — Emily Watlington, ARTnews.com, 18 Sep. 2026

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“Egregiously.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/egregiously. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.

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