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scandalous

[skan-dl-uhs]

adjective

  1. disgraceful; shameful or shocking; improper.

    scandalous behavior in public.

  2. defamatory or libelous, as a speech or writing.

  3. attracted to or preoccupied with scandal, as a person.

    a scandalous, vicious gossip.



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Other Word Forms

  • scandalously adverb
  • scandalousness noun
  • nonscandalous adjective
  • nonscandalously adverb
  • superscandalous adjective
  • superscandalously adverb
  • unscandalous adjective
  • unscandalously adverb
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Word History and Origins

Origin of scandalous1

From the Medieval Latin word Ի岹ōܲ, dating back to 1585–95. See scandal, -ous
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Stephen said he thought it was "scandalous" that it had taken so long.

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She yells, stomps her feet and raises her hoop skirt and petticoat to scandalous heights.

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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".

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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".

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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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