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{{quote|''"Professor Hogben... is unwilling to look 'egregious' up in the dictionary and see what it means."''|'''[[George Orwell]]''', "Politics and the English Language"}}
[[Reviewer Stock Phrases|People]] [[You Keep Using That Word|keep using the word]] "egregious", which [[The Princess Bride (film)|does not mean what they often think it means.]] According to the ''Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary'':
* '''''e·gre·gious''''' ( \i-ˈgrē-jəs\ IPA: /ɪˈɡriː.dʒəs/ or /əˈɡriː.dʒi.əs/)<ref>eh-gree-jous or -ji-ous (as in "disagree" and "just" minus "t")</ref> ''adj.'' '''1''' archaic : distinguished '''2''' : conspicuous; especially : conspicuously bad : flagrant <egregious errors>. Latin ''egregius'', from ''e-'' + ''greg-'', ''grex'' herd
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