Nuisance vs Egregious - What's the difference?
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A minor annoyance or inconvenience.
A person or thing causing annoyance or inconvenience.
(legal) Anything harmful or offensive to the community or to a member of it, for which a legal remedy exists.
Exceptional, conspicuous, outstanding, most usually in a negative fashion.
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Outrageously bad; shocking.
As a noun nuisance
is a minor annoyance or inconvenience.As an adjective egregious is
exceptional, conspicuous, outstanding, most usually in a negative fashion.nuisance
English
Noun
(wikipedia nuisance) (en noun)- a public nuisance
Synonyms
* (minor annoyance or inconvenience) annoyance, inconvenience, offense * (person or thing causing annoyance or inconvenience) bother, obstacle, pestAntonyms
* (minor annoyance or inconvenience) enjoymentDerived terms
* nuisance tax ----egregious
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The student has made egregious errors on the examination.
- I cannot cross my arms, or sigh "Ah me," / "Ah me forlorn!" egregious foppery! / I cannot buss thy fill, play with thy hair, / Swearing by Jove, "Thou art most debonnaire!"
- My lord, you give me most egregious indignity.
- When the goal is simply to be as faithful as possible to the material—as if a movie were a marriage, and a rights contract the vow—the best result is a skillful abridgment, one that hits all the important marks without losing anything egregious .