051221 - WotD: egregious
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Yeah, kitt finished writing this at 18:33 on 21 December 2005
egregious
And it doesn't mean, "be like Greg." From the December 12th 2005 issue of Fortune Magazine, titled "Delta's Chapter 11 Dogfight," discussing bankruptcy filings among the big airline companies: 'Mike Donatelli, chariman of the pilots union's Stirke Perparedness Committee, says of a Delta court filing that compared the union's strike threat to a murder-suicide, "Some lawyer came up with that.... To throw that term around in public after you've had airplanes hit the World Trade Center, hit hte Pentagon --- that's as egregious and cavlier as you can get."' From the Merriam Webster online dictionary,- conspicuously bad, flagrant