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scandalous
[skan-dl-uhs]
adjective
disgraceful; shameful or shocking; improper.
scandalous behavior in public.
defamatory or libelous, as a speech or writing.
attracted to or preoccupied with scandal, as a person.
a scandalous, vicious gossip.
Other Word Forms
- scandalously adverb
- scandalousness noun
- nonscandalous adjective
- nonscandalously adverb
- superscandalous adjective
- superscandalously adverb
- unscandalous adjective
- unscandalously adverb
Word History and Origins
Origin of scandalous1
Example Sentences
Stephen said he thought it was "scandalous" that it had taken so long.
She yells, stomps her feet and raises her hoop skirt and petticoat to scandalous heights.
The president of Guyana, Irfaan Ali, has denounced the move as a "scandalous, false, propagandistic, opportunistic" and has said he will "do everything to ensure our territorial integrity and sovereignty is kept intact".
They have told the BBC they're concerned the traders have been "scapegoated" in a scandalous series of miscarriages of justice that runs "deeper than the Post Office".
One GP said creating an assisted dying law was "scandalous" when hospices were largely funded by charities rather than by the state.
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