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/ˈskændəˌɫaɪz/
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VERB
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strike with disgust or revulsion
The scandalous behavior of this married woman shocked her friends
How To Use scandalize In A Sentence
- This profession scandalizes her mother, a member of the local gentry, a class slightly above that of most of the people Enid cares for.
- [*] Though the judge's portrait, reprinted in White Heat, suggests the very antithesis of Byronic romance, it was very likely Lord in whose arms Emily Dickinson was reputedly once seen "reclining" in the Homestead parlor by her scandalized neighbor/sister-in-law Susan Dickinson. The Woman in White
- She scandalized her family with her extravagant lifestyle.
- She was running before the wind -- yawing frightfully -- her staysail let down to act as a sort of extra foresail, -- "scandalized," they call it, -- and her foreboom guyed out over the side. Captains Courageous
- You say that to shock and scandalize ," said Nessarose primly. WICKED: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST
- In the ensuing uproar - fueled by people who were not comparably scandalized when George W. Bush was sulfurously vilified - her opponent raised nearly $2 million and her lead shrank from 13 points to her winning margin of 3. Theleafchronicle.com - Local News
- Dead or fled, the man was out of Meirion's way, and could scandalise Morgant no longer. His Disposition
- Some of the few things that can still scandalise: Bible quotes Some of the few things that can still scandalise: Bible quotes « Anglican Samizdat
- But at the same time, it is NOT “pointless” to be enthusiastically, tear-jerkingly, unwaveringly “proud” of the “land of your birth” — to the point where people are actually STILL SURPRISED — or even scandalized — when yet another of “our” scandals come to light. US in Police State Top 10
- That a man who certainly did (as F.H. Groome says) look like a “colossal clergyman” should have joined the gipsies, that he should have wandered over England and Europe, content often to have the grass for his bed and the sky for his hostry-roof, has astonished very much (and I believe scandalized very much) this age. Old Familiar Faces