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Перевод: egregious
[прилагательное] отъявленный; вопиющий; выдающийся
Тезаурус:
- Indeed, under the egregious President Reagan and the so-called "supply-siders", enormous and successful efforts were taken to ensure that the poor got even poorer.
- Well, how about "Dear sir, you have made an error which in the context of your foetid letter, was delightfully egregious"."
- He would now and then play the most egregious fool in his carriage and was so much given to jesters, players and childish sports, to make himself merry, that anybody who saw his gravity on the one part and his folly and lightness on the other, would surely say that there were two distinct persons in him.
- The difficulty here is best demonstrated when Honderich, analyzing the notion that Conservatism is a "defence of the familiar", argues that if this were central to Conservatism "we should have a mystery on our hands, the mystery of how an egregious idiocy could have become a large political tradition".
- It may well be the case that an egregious idiocy has formed the basis of a political tradition - examples of this are plentiful - but ridiculing an historical phenomenon does not explain it.
- It is getting toward 70 years since I attended the lectures of that egregious humbug "Tubby" Radcliffe at the Tech (now UMIST).
- But, in the most egregious error of judgement, the film, not content with human interest, ropes in aliens as well, arriving like a deus ex machina from the ocean bed, as though the characters were unable to face their darkest selves without prodding from a benign ET.
- The only strength of Farewell To The King (PG Vestron 18 Oct), its exotic Borneo scenery, is lost on the small screen; the rest is mumbo-jumbo about leadership and how the egregious Nick Nolte achieved the position of chief to the savages.
- The title is one of lit crit's more egregious red herrings, since the payload of the book is a reading of Madame Bovary .
- This egregious non sequitur requires further clarification, if only for your myriad younger readers.
- Marcos was a prime beneficiary of Washington's egregious "hold-the-nose" policy, the brand of realpolitik which, since the Second World War, has buoyed up so many of the world's most grotesque regimes.
- She had, apparently, spent little of the money on herself, had been a dependable benefactress of the few eccentric charities of which she approved, had remembered them in her will, but without egregious generosity, and had left the residue of her estate to him without explanation, admonition or peculiar protestations of affection, although he had no doubt that the words "my dearly beloved nephew" meant exactly what they said.
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