Egregious

Egregious is the word for the day...

egregious • \ih-GREE-juss\ • adjective
: conspicuous; especially : conspicuously bad

"Egregious" derives from the Latin word "egregius," meaning "distinguished" or "eminent." In its earliest English uses, "egregious" was a compliment to someone who had a remarkably good quality that placed him or her eminently above others. That's how English philosopher and theorist Thomas Hobbes used it in flattering a colleague when he remarked, "I am not so egregious a mathematician as you are." Since Hobbes' day, however, the meaning of the word has become noticeably less complimentary, possibly as a result of ironic use of its original sense.