Egregious and Small

Egregious

Egregious adjective - Very noticeable especially for being incorrect or bad.
Usage example: the student's theme was marred by a number of egregious errors in spelling

Small is an antonym for egregious.

Small

Small adjective - Of a size that is less than average.

Egregious is an antonym for small.

Nearby Word: smallish

Both words in one sentence

  • This is particularly egregious in The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword because Link is said to have been a native of Skyloft yet the students at the Knight Academy all have their families living on the small floating town except for Link himself.
  • An especially egregious version occurred in Kim Possible, though it didn't involve a human: a small, rice-grain size fragment (from a digital reconstruction of the crime scene) had the weapon, an exploding golf ball, extrapolated from it.
  • For example, Nightbringer has a group of Space Marines being butchered by a small group of Planetary Defense Force soldiers, which is more egregious when it is factored in that the planet in question was considered to have a poor PDF force by the low standards of the PDF.
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