9 letters · 11 points in Scrabble
adjective conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible
originFrom Latin ēgregius, from e- (“out of”), + grex (“flock”), + English adjective suffix -ous, from Latin suffix -osus (“full of”); reflecting the positive connotations of "standing out from the flock".
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