"Egregious" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... was of that character especially affected both by the most acknowledged exquisites of that day, and, it must be owned, also, by the most egregious parvenus. For it is noticeable that it is your parvenu who always comes nearest in fashion (so far as externals are concerned) to your genuine exquisite. It is your parvenu who is most particular as to the cut of his coat, and the precision of his equipage, and the minutiae ...
— The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 3, March, 1852 • Various
... so vehemently as to startle her by the fear of having ignorantly committed some egregious blunder; 'I'm the ...
— Hopes and Fears - scenes from the life of a spinster • Charlotte M. Yonge
... to annoy Peter by sending him what he's never asked for. I should think probably Peter knows they can get on all right as they are, and that this letter must be taken with a good deal of salt. I expect the egregious Hilary only wants the money for some new enterprise of his own, that will fail, as usual. Anyhow, I really don't fancy having any further dealings with Hilary Margerison or his wife; I've had enough there. He's the most impossible ...
— The Lee Shore • Rose Macaulay
... the KING is like the sun, And from his wig they spin The golden webs that, one by one, Draw Spain and Flanders in; He will grow proud ere they have done, A most egregious sin, And one to which my mind Has ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 153, Oct. 24, 1917 • Various
... versify or not, is grievously in the wrong. There is no more justification for, say, a purely didactic poem or descriptive poem than there is for the rhyming which begins somebody's treatise on optics with these egregious words:— ...
— Platform Monologues • T. G. Tucker
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