Egregious

It’s shocking, outrageous and conspicuously bad. Well, the word isn’t, but what it describes is.  I love the ‘ous’-ness of the word.  And the middle two syllables that sound like a heavy metal object being dragged, screeching along a concrete floor. And my wife told me she heard of a book called I Always Look up the Word “Egregious”. And it just tastes good on the tongue.

Avi
Toronto

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June 4th, 2009 | June 4th, 2009 | % | (30 votes, average: 8.1 out of 10)
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1 comment to Egregious

• Stacey

  September 1, 2009 at 9:22 am

  I normally pull this out the vocab bag when forced into conversation with someone with delusions of academic grandeur. I love it because it used to mean the opposite of common accepted definition but was so often mis-used that it came to mean the definition you posted. Doesn’t this make you love it even more – think of the fun – all those academics to bring back down to earth with a single word.

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