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Scandalous   /skˈændələs/   Listen
adjective
Scandalous  adj.  
1.
Giving offense to the conscience or moral feelings; exciting reprobation; calling out condemnation. "Nothing scandalous or offensive unto any."
2.
Disgraceful to reputation; bringing shame or infamy; opprobrious; as, a scandalous crime or vice.
3.
Defamatory; libelous; as, a scandalous story.





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"Scandalous" Quotes from Famous Books



... were now crying from fright; and the two clergymen, probably feeling that the proceedings had become scandalous, persuaded their colleague to cease hostilities; and in the end the board contented itself with putting a formal order of expulsion into writing. School was then dismissed for that afternoon, and they all went away, leaving old Zack backed into the ...
— A Busy Year at the Old Squire's • Charles Asbury Stephens
... of 1884 was unique in the extreme. It was the most bitter personal contest in our history. The private lives of both candidates, Cleveland and Blaine, were searched, and the most scandalous stories circulated, most of which ...
— Fifty Years of Public Service • Shelby M. Cullom
... and indignant than any of the foregoing. He repeats and emphasises his indictment against the Deity. No omnipotent being who was really just and good could approve, or even connive at, much less practise, the scandalous injustice which characterises the conduct of the universe and the so-called moral order, and of which his own particular grievances are a specimen. Not that the curious spectacle that daily meets our eye, wherein wickedness and hypocrisy ...
— The Sceptics of the Old Testament: Job - Koheleth - Agur • Emile Joseph Dillon
... during our troubled periods in Europe, led to the same superstitions. And it may be added, that the same error has arisen in both cases as to some of these superstitions. How often must it have struck people of liberal feelings, as a scandalous proof of the preposterous value set upon riches by poor men, that ghosts should popularly be supposed to rise and wander for the sake of revealing the situations of buried treasures. For ourselves, we have ...
— Narrative And Miscellaneous Papers • Thomas De Quincey
... place in the schooner I should have retired to it, and left this surly and scandalous savage to the enjoyment of his own company. His temper rendered me extremely uneasy. The arms-room was full of weapons; he might draw a pistol upon me and shoot me dead before I should have time to clench my hand. Nor did I conceive him to have his right mind. His panic terrors and outbursts ...
— The Frozen Pirate • W. Clark Russell


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