scandalous

Competing newspapers battled for stories, from the quirky to the scandalous.

All words meant to make homophobic adults imagine scandalous material, but the book itself is entirely innocent, which readers can verify by watching this 3-minute video of a woman reading it, complete with the illustrations.

"It's absolute carnage, it's scandalous", one man with heavy bin bags in each hand and a full car to unload told me.

A dinner roll the size of a closed fist, its warmth melting a knob of cinnamon butter into something almost scandalous.

All of which sounds entirely normal and relatable, but is sufficient to provide a "redemption" narrative for Christian magazines like Relevant, without seeming remotely scandalous or unusual.