[Wikipedia-l] Re: Re : banning (Tim)

Fri Oct 24 07:58:49 UTC 2003

Tim Starling wrote:

>> Egregious is unfortunaly not in my dictionnary, but I
>> can guess.
>
> Out of the ordinary or exceptional. Apparently once upon a time it 
> used to be used positively but now it means "very bad".
>
> http://www.bennetyee.org//http_webster.cgi?isindex=egregious

Although it's true that it was once used in a positive sense, your 
definition is not correct.  It rather means very apparent, and standing 
out, flagrant.  Thus egregiously bad behavious would be of a kind that 
would be noticed by everybody.

Ec