EGREGIOUSLY Synonyms: 84 Similar and Opposite Words

egregiously

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as in grossly

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Recent Examples of egregiously If Sid weren’t on the blocks as a doomed trading piece, then Flyte would have a case as the person most egregiously wronged by Taverner’s mistakes. — Scott Tobias, Vulture, 14 Oct. 2026 Most egregiously, the central bank began lending directly to the treasury. — Steve H. Hanke, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2026 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

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Written by Mike Flanagan and Hossein Amini, and directed by James Watkins, Clayface centers on a Hollywood movie star named Tom Hagen who is left grossly disfigured following a violent attack orchestrated by a Gotham mob boss.

— Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 16 Oct. 2026
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

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Embedded in the production of the show is the feeling of being trapped in a hall of mirrors; scenes are edited flagrantly, drowning the viewer in red herrings.

— Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2026
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

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