egregiosity

plural egregiosities

1. rareuncountableThe quality of being egregious.

   Faculty of Egregiosity

   1996, David Langford, compiler, The Unseen University Challenge: Terry Pratchett’s Discworld Quizbook, Vista, →ISBN, page 47

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   HUMBUGGERY. The world is chock-full of it. Rather the most glaring specimen of it we have seen latterly is one of the last numbers of the Washington Republic, which represents Scott’s election as beyond all doubt. Whereas, the whole mass of evidence is to the contrary. And yet there are those who will swallow the Republic’s egregiosity without a grimace.

   1852 September 22, Edgefield Advertiser. […], volume XVII, number 36, Edgefield, S.C., page [2], column 3

   However, in line with the instructions of the Court of Criminal Appeals in remanding this cause back to this court, there now must be made a determination of the degree of egregiosity involved in this patently erroneous submission.

   1986, South Western Reporter, Second Series: Cases Argued and Determined in the Courts of Arkansas, Kentucky, Missouri, Tennessee, Texas : with Key Number Annotations, West Publishing Company, page 285, column 2

   How am I dazzled? In the tradition of a poetperson whose name escapes me, let me count the ways: timing, egregiosity, irony, pretended-expert evaluation, rubberstamp pseudo-refereeing of archon-Browning pseudo-research, political arrogance, technical innocence, ostracism of dissent.

   1991, Dio & The Journal for Hysterical Astronomy, volumes 1–3, page 124

   If, in extremis, you need a simple, absolutely goddamned foolproof remedy for any further egregiosity, a heartfelt "I fucked up." will do nicely.

   1994 December 30, Rick Gordon, “Ob”, in alt.peeves (Usenet)

   Effete eastcoast establishmentarian egregiosity

   1994 May 29, Danny Clark, “Power-assisted kamika”, in alt.peeves (Usenet)

   Synonyms: egregiousness

2. countablerareSomeone or something that is egregious.

   Egregiosities like interpersonal, and factor (except in mathematics) should be re-interred in the dictionary.

   1982, English Journal, volume 71, page 79, column 2

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   And really the editor of the Author should revise his proofs. Thus he has allowed an egregious person to perpetrate the following egregiosity. “Three of the most prominent contemporary Parisienne journalists are now in Mazas prison.” Parisienne! What next, by Polycarp or Polly Peachum?

   1896 February 8, “Literary Notes”, in The Pall Mall Gazette, volume LXII, number 9633, page 3, column 2

   By the time the four seconds had expired his informant had usually passed to other egregiosities with which to tax Tate’s perplexed, inquiring mind.

   1940 February 15, “[Our London Letter: Russia And Turkey—Wireless For The Warrior—Colonial Drive—An Admiral’s Barge] Harry Tate”, in Liverpool Daily Post, number 26,392, page 4, column 5

   In case you haven't found it - here is a recent post I put up with my top ten favorite egregiosities from Posner.

   1994 December 23, Lisa Pease, “Case Closed-Looking for reviews & criticism”, in alt.conspiracy.jfk (Usenet)

   SI thinks the egregiosities deserve their appeal as well, but they don't say what happens if the league overturns a suspension that's already been served.

   1996 October 10, NawrockiT, “3 Strikes on the Umpires”, in rec.sport.baseball (Usenet)

   Kids were beamed that message loud and clear, both from Democrats and most of the public who indulged Clinton’s egregiosities and from Republicans and conservatives who condemned the president but found expedient ways to forgive the sinners in their own midst. […] The extremes to which the mainstream media can go to turn even the worst adult egregiosities into a mere teenage attitude problem were exemplified (among many examples) by the Los Angeles Times’ Sunday, April 5, 1998, front-page profile on “Chad MacDonald’s Short, Tragic Life.”

   1999, Mike A. Males, Framing Youth: Ten Myths About the Next Generation, Monroe, Me.: Common Courage Press, →ISBN, pages 213 and 294