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scandalous

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scan·dal·ous  (skndl-s)
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.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.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 << OPPOSITE decent
adjective 2. slanderous, gossiping, scurrilous, untrue, defamatory, libellous << OPPOSITE laudatory
adjective 3. outrageous, shocking, infamous, disgraceful, monstrous, shameful, atrocious, unseemly, odious, disreputable, opprobrious, highly improper << OPPOSITE proper
Translations
scandalous [ˈskændələs] adj → escandaloso
scandalous [ˈskændələs] adj → scandaleux/euse
scandalous [ˈskændələs] scandal adj → skandalös
scandalous [ˈskændələs] adj → scandaloso/a


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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.
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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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