egregiosity
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
- "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."
- "If, in extremis, you need a simple, absolutely goddamned foolproof remedy for any further egregiosity, a heartfelt "I fucked up." will do nicely."
- "Effete eastcoast establishmentarian egregiosity"
- "Faculty of Egregiosity"
Etymology
From egregi(ous) + -osity.