egregious
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{dag}1. Prominent, projecting.

    2. Remarkable in a good sense:    a. Of persons and personal
qualities: Distinguished, eminent, excellent, renowned. Obs. (exc. in
humorously pedantic use).

    b. Of things: Remarkably good or great. Of events and utterances:
Striking, significant. ?Obs.

    3. Remarkable in a bad sense; gross, flagrant, outrageous. [This
sense does not belong to L. egregius or to It. egregio; prob. it arose
from an ironical use of 2, though our earliest quotations afford no
evidence of this.]    a. of persons and personal attributes.

    b. of things, actions, etc.

    4. nonce-use. Wandering from the flock.

    Hence e{sm}gregiousness, the quality of being egregious; the
possession of uncommon qualities.