Scandalous
['skændələs]
Definition
(a.) Giving offense to the conscience or moral feelings; exciting reprobation; calling out condemnation.
(a.) Disgraceful to reputation; bringing shame or infamy; opprobrious; as, a scandalous crime or vice.
(a.) Defamatory; libelous; as, a scandalous story.
Edited by Augustus
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Opprobrious, defamatory, libellous, slanderous.[2]. Disgraceful, shameful, infamous, disreputable, ignominious, atrocious, odious, inglorious.
Typist: Martha
Examples
- As no scandalous, ill-natured rumour had reached her, it was impossible for her to understand much of this strange letter. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- The house in Yorkshire was associated with the scandalous affair of the lost Moonstone. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- But the factory system gathered up all this infantile toil and made it systematic, conspicuous, and scandalous. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Take down that scandalous red handkerchief, I beg. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- This was at the time of the Great Schism, just before the Council of Constance (1414-1418) gathered to discuss the scandalous disorder of the church. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The petition was declared to be scandalous and vexatious, and the prayer of it refused. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Bulstrode had been in dread of scandalous disclosures on the part of Raffles. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- For hardly anybody doubted that some scandalous reason or other was at the bottom of Bulstrode's liberality to Lydgate. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Do you want to marry into a family with a scandalous divorce-suit hanging over it? Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- It was a burning shame and a scandalous disgrace to act in that way. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- You know, my dear, you're rather a big responsibility in such a scandalous place after midnight. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- It is perfectly scandalous. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
Typist: Martha