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egregious \ih-GREE-juhs\, adjective:
Conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible.
Egregious derives from Latin egregius, "separated or chosen from the herd," from e-, ex-, "out of, from" + grex, greg-, "herd, flock."
Trivia: Egregious formerly indicated a good quality (that which was distinguished "from the herd" because of excellence), but now it is used only in a bad sense. It is related to congregate (to "flock together," from con-, "together, with" + gregare, to assemble, from grex); segregate (from segregare, "to separate from the herd," from se-, "apart" + gregare); and gregarious (from gregarius, "belonging to a flock").
"In the movie, Saved, egregious acts at a Christian high school reveal to the students their true characters and what love really is."
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