scandalous

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adj.

1. Causing scandal; shocking: scandalous behavior.

2. Containing material damaging to reputation; defamatory: a scandalous exposé.

scandal·ous·ly adv.

scandal·ous·ness n.

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Adj.

scandalous - giving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to reputation; "scandalous behavior"; "the wicked rascally shameful conduct of the bankrupt"- Thackeray; "the most shocking book of its time"

disgraceful, shameful, shocking

immoral - deliberately violating accepted principles of right and wrong

scandalous

adjective

1. shocking, disgraceful, outrageous, offensive, appalling, foul, dreadful, horrifying, obscene, monstrous, unspeakable, atrocious, frightful, abominable They would be sacked for criminal or scandalous behaviour.
shocking decent, respectable, upright

2. slanderous, gossiping, scurrilous, untrue, defamatory, libellous Newspaper columns were full of scandalous tales.
slanderous laudatory

3. outrageous, shocking, infamous, disgraceful, monstrous, shameful, atrocious, unseemly, odious, disreputable, opprobrious, highly improper a scandalous waste of money
outrageous seemly, proper, reputable

Translations

scandalous [ˈskændələs] ADJ [behaviour, story, price] → escandaloso
to reach scandalous proportions → alcanzar proporciones escandalosas
it's simply scandalous! → ¡es un escándalo!
it's scandalous that → es vergonzoso que ...
scandalous talk → habladurías fpl, chismes mpl

scandalous [ˈskændələs] adj → scandaleux/euse.

scandalous

adj → skandalös; scandalous talk → böswilliger Klatsch; a scandalous report/tale → eine Skandalgeschichte; to reach scandalous proportions → skandalöse Ausmaße annehmen

scandalous [ˈskænd/ələs] adj → scandaloso/a

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disreputable
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ignominious
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Mainwaring and a young man engaged to Miss Mainwaring distractedly in love with her, which Reginald firmly believed when he came here, is now, he is persuaded, only a scandalous invention.

Lady Susan by Austen, Jane View in context

Such was my abominable luck in being born by the mere hair's breadth of twenty-five centuries too late into a world where kings have been growing scarce with scandalous rapidity, while the few who remain have adopted the uninteresting manners and customs of simple millionaires.

The Mirror of the Sea by Conrad, Joseph View in context

As he did not, however, outwardly express any such disgust, it would be an ill office in us to pay a visit to the inmost recesses of his mind, as some scandalous people search into the most secret affairs of their friends, and often pry into their closets and cupboards, only to discover their poverty and meanness to the world.

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