How To Use Scandalize In A Sentence
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This profession scandalizes her mother, a member of the local gentry, a class slightly above that of most of the people Enid cares for.
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[*] 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
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She scandalized her family with her extravagant lifestyle.
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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
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You say that to shock and scandalize ," said Nessarose primly.
WICKED: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST
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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
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Dead or fled, the man was out of Meirion's way, and could scandalise Morgant no longer.
His Disposition
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Some of the few things that can still scandalise: Bible quotes
Some of the few things that can still scandalise: Bible quotes « Anglican Samizdat
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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
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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
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The visitors were scandalized by the chastisements imposed by the French upon their children.
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How about you pick something else to scandalize him with?
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Robert Cook said, "Crumb has never, to my knowledge, stated any intent to "satirize" or "scandalize" Christian theology in his rendering of Genesis, but merely to depict what he found there.
"My problem was, how am I going to draw God?"
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Breaking all the rules of public dancing, the waltz scandalised polite society with its racy rhythms, generating a social revolution along the way.
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Lastly, over and above all, might they not plead themselves extremely scandalized, grieved, and offended at the disusage of circumcision, which they were sure was at first instituted by God, and never since
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. VII.
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Republicans are doing what they do best, spin, lie, scandalize, fear-bate ......
Bill Clinton: 'The president needs your help'
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Jesus scandalized people by speaking God's law in his own name.
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A person of weak morals would have gone out to scandalise his colleagues even on matters he agreed with.
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Constantinople had given him a taste for Anacreontic singing, and female society of the questionable kind, a love of strong waters, — the hypocrite looked positively scandalised when I first suggested the subject, — and an off-hand latitudinarian mode of dealing with serious subjects in general.
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah
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It has ceased to scandalize me, though it has not ceased to amaze me, that Almighty God suffers me to touch him, move him and eat him!
Liturgy
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You say that to shock and scandalize ," said Nessarose primly.
WICKED: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST
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Government norms prevent us from showing anything which might "scandalize" people too much.
How Much of the Reality Show is Scripted?
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Some of the not overflowing things that can in any case scandalise: Bible quotes
Lost in translation « Anglican Samizdat
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He was scandalised by her moral stand on political issues.
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Impervious to scandalized looks from better dressed diners, I slowly ate, with Humber's establishment in mind, a perfect and enormous dinner of lobster, duck bigarade, lemon souffle, and brie, and drank most of a bottle of Chateau Leauville Lescases 1948.
For Kicks
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That would certainly scandalize Madame Piquemal - a young lady of Monique Colin's persona seeking him out in his bedroom at this hour.
MOONDROP TO MURDER
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It found him in contempt of court, and found that he had attempted to scandalise the Family Court.
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“But at the same time, it is NOT ‘pointless’ to be enthusiastically, tear-jerkingly, unwaveringly ‘proud’ of the ‘land of your birth’ â to the point where people are actually STILL SURPRISED â or even scandalized â when yet another of ‘our’ scandals come to light.”
US in Police State Top 10
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The chief priests and scribes, however, are scandalized by the application of this messianic title to Jesus: ‘Do you hear what these are saying?’
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Words sometimes mean more than what they appear to say on the surface," he writes, going on to interpret the words as contemptuous because they had an "inherent tendency" to "scandalise the court.
Singapore Strikes Again
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“I will not scandalise this good man with my foolish garb: I have a mantle for ordinary wear.”
The Fair Maid of Perth
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Some of the few things that can still scandalise: Biblequotes
Lost in translation « Anglican Samizdat
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That was the year when, casting off her teen-pop image, she scandalised polite society with the video for her new single.
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The conflicting interests of these touting gentlemen being of a nature to irritate their feelings, personal collisions took place; and the Commons was even scandalized by our principal inveigler (who had formerly been in the wine trade, and afterwards in the sworn brokery line) walking about for some days with a black eye.
David Copperfield
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The marriage over the tongs is a thing to scandalise any well-brought-up person, for before he joined the couple's hands, Jimmy jumped about in a startling way, uttering wild gibberish, and after the ceremony was over there was rough work, with incantations and blowing on pipes.
Auld Licht Idylls
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And then it was gone: giant, empyreal prisoner, and the light that had framed them, leaving behind only the veldt and the scandalized night.
Carnivores of Light and Darkness
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According to Professor G.M. Trevelyan (England Under Queen Anne), part of the reason for Swifts failure to get preferment was that the Queen was scandalized by the Tale of a Tuba pamphlet in which Swift probably felt that he had done a great service to the English Crown, since it scarifies the Dissenters and still more the Catholics while leaving the Established Church alone.
Politics vs. Literature: An Examination of Gullivers Travels
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Yet the Hindus, I repeat, hold pederasty in abhorrence and are as much scandalised by being called Gánd-márá (anus-beater) or Gándú
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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She is not the only one to be scandalised by our Government's shabby treatment of the legendary soldiers.
The Sun
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Half the population here have names as unchristian quite – Norma, Odoacer, Archimedes – my housemaid is called Themis – but Dionea seemed to scandalize every one, perhaps because these good folk had a mysterious instinct that the name is derived from Dione, one of the loves of Father Zeus, and mother of no less a lady than the goddess Venus.
Archive 2009-11-01
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That would certainly scandalize Madame Piquemal - a young lady of Monique Colin's persona seeking him out in his bedroom at this hour.
MOONDROP TO MURDER
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The Cluniac was a man of the world whom no confidences could scandalise.
The Path of the King
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After all, parents in earlier times were once scandalised by teddy boys and mods and hippies and punks.
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To dream of blood is a sign that some one will "scandalize" you.
Current Superstitions Collected from the Oral Tradition of English Speaking Folk
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The word "cancan" in French means "scandal," and the high-kicks and lifting and tossing of skirts did scandalize
Answers.com: Today's Highlights
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Not only did Jesus scandalize these leaders by the company he kept, he went so far as to openly confront their hypocrisy.
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It didn't scandalize me then, nor did "Nightline" scandalize me last week.
Going to the Source of the Christopher West Controversy
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Some of the few things that can still scandalise: Bible quotes « Anglican Samizdat
Some of the few things that can still scandalise: Bible quotes « Anglican Samizdat
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The people in the town liked to pay attention to made up stories that would ‘simply scandalize the neighbors!’
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We've got to scandalize ourselves for Bill Humble's sake.
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Ardent majoritarians may be scandalized by the fact that 51 senators from the least populous states, representing just 17 percent of the nation's population, could defeat a bill.
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Free-speech blogger Ezra Levant has accused anti-hate activist Richard Warman of exploiting court processes to publicly "scandalize" him with "wholly irrelevant" allegations, and to discourage his "public service journalism" against human rights commissions.
Comments for Jack's Newswatch
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Her family were scandalised at her association with a petty criminal and cut her out of their lives.
Times, Sunday Times
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She decided that on a day where she was not quite as tired, she would be her normal self and attempt to scandalize the prince.
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His outspoken views scandalized the nation.
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His clumsy rage scandalised Dublin's academe.
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When the spectators learned that the builder of the boat intended to take his wife along on the trip, excitement and scandalized alarm spread through Pittsburgh and up the valley of the Monongahela.
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She scandalized her audiences by dressing like the randiest of dandies in brocade trousers and animal-skin jackets.
Kickboxing Geishas
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The intrepid Joncaire, agent of France among the Senecas, was scandalized at what he calls the Jesuit's flight, and wrote to the commandant of Fort Frontenac that its effect on the Indians was such that he, Joncaire, was in peril of his life. [
A Half Century of Conflict - Volume I France and England in North America
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I have no doubt it was meant to scandalise polite society and satirise their hypocrisy, but how would polite society have got itself into the Mond drawing room?
Charles Sargeant Jagger I: war and sex
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Eastern love-tales are always bonne fourchettes: they eat and drink hard enough to scandalise the sentimental amourist of the West; but it is understood that this abundant diet is necessary to qualify them for the Herculean labours of the love night.
Arabian nights. English
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‘Deforcement — spulzie-stouthrief — masterful rescue!’ exclaimed Peter Peebles, scandalized at the resistance offered to the law in the person of Nicholas Faggot.
Redgauntlet
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Scandalized by the riches of the higher clergy, by the sight of so many priests living unpriestly lives, they formed themselves into a little Protestant community before the time of Protestantism was yet come.
Protestantism
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Mention of the street sweeper scandalised him: 'You with a gun!
Times, Sunday Times
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Crumb has never, to my knowledge, stated any intent to "satirize" or "scandalize" Christian theology in his rendering of Genesis, but merely to depict what he found there.
"My problem was, how am I going to draw God?"
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I would be happy to let them use it for their thirst, or to cool of, or — and scandalize the neighborhood by doing so!?
The Volokh Conspiracy » School Board Violating California Law?
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One of my earliest convictions in becoming Catholic is that the Faith scandalizes us (different people in different ways) and that the scandal is a judgment on us, not on the Faith.
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And when it was also suggested to him by one of the prebendaries of the Cathedral that it might be well for him to change his clerical duties for a period with the vicar of a remote parish in the north of Cornwall so as to be out of the way of remark from those whom he had scandalised by his conduct, he had no objection to make to that arrangement.
He Knew He Was Right
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She quickly produced a series of light, frothy peeks into high society that proved successful with the public – The Vicissitudes of Evangeline, a series of vignettes detailing a young debutante’s observations of the love affairs of high society, which scandalized the reading public not by its subject, but by a scene where Evangeline is described as becoming in her lingerie!
Elinor Glyn and “Three Weeks” | Edwardian Promenade
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That would certainly scandalize Madame Piquemal - a young lady of Monique Colin's persona seeking him out in his bedroom at this hour.
MOONDROP TO MURDER
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And I remember how he once scandalised us all by leaving a Test series in Australia to pursue his lady-love, a famous belly dancer.
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If you go to mid-night Mass, and you're the devout type, don't be scandalized if it smells like a barroom, or that some hussey hardly has any clothes on under her coat.
Archive 2006-12-10
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I get letters regularly from a harrassed worshipper who is regularly scandalised by the indecent haste with which her parish priest gets through the Mass.
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Even small Frances, most self-conscious of Madigans, in a costume so inadequate that Bep's doll would have been scandalized at the idea of wearing it, posed and attitudinized as a Dewdrop.
The Madigans
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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.
RealClearPolitics - Homepage
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Several government officials, Lamartine most notably, were scandalized by the army's use of the razzia, or raid, derived from a tactic used by the Roman army.
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The hook, of course, was Corey Pavin enlisting the Iraq veteran Major Dan Rooney to give a motivational talk to his Ryder Cup team, a decision which positively scandalised some.
Wheel out a Major Dan Rooney and people on British streets would laugh
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So widespread is the understanding that, when a priest or bishop's adultery or fornication comes to light, clergy and laity are equally scandalized.
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Eunice grew up with the Indians, who were Catholic and French-speaking, and scandalised her own people by refusing to be ransomed and marrying a Mohawk called Squirrel.
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The preacher's adulteries scandalize the Scripture-reading congregation of Zion Hope.
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The friar next addressed the company with a proposal, that the foreign merchant, instead of being amerced in a measure of the liquor which he had scandalized, should be mulcted in an equal quantity of the more generous wines which were usually produced after the repast had been concluded.
Anne of Geierstein
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You say that to shock and scandalize ," said Nessarose primly.
WICKED: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST
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Cuckoo, you ass!" laughed Fred, kicking the chair over backward, and then piling all the veranda furniture on top, to the scandalized amazement of the stately kavass, who came at that moment shepherding
The Eye of Zeitoon
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Back when they were talking about building the OHSU aerial tram [rim shot], the neighbors along the route threatened to hold summertime backyard nudist parties to scandalize the tram riders.
Jack Bog's Blog: June 2009 Archives
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His father was a merchant who was able to send his son to the Japanese medical school in Taegu, in the southeast, where he boarded with a rich family that not only had many servants, but treated them in a high-handed manner that scandalized K.C.
Koreans in Indiana « Far Outliers
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Some people of the old guard are still scandalised by public kissing.
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Worse still, we seem to have fixed upon a great many varieties that scandalise me.
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The lasagna's another story: crumbly with meat and bolstered with béchamel, oozing and succulent in a way that would scandalize those well-meaning folks at Lean Cuisine.
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I get letters regularly from a harrassed worshipper who is regularly scandalised by the indecent haste with which her parish priest gets through the Mass.
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Cuckoo, you ass!" laughed Fred, kicking the chair over backward, and then piling all the veranda furniture on top, to the scandalized amazement of the stately kavass, who came at that moment shepherding a small boy with a large tray and perfectly enormous drinks.
The Eye of Zeitoon
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He would simply "scandalise" his mainsail without reefing it, haul the staysail sheet to windward, and let the cutter head reach till daylight.
Yorke The Adventurer
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His behaviour was not so much to scandalise his neighbours but rather to keep himself on his feet in same way or other.
Intellectuals
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Her family were scandalised at her association with a petty criminal and cut her out of their lives.
Times, Sunday Times
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When afflicted, he scandalizes his comforters by damning the day that he was born.
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The marriage over the tongs is a thing to scandalize any well-brought-up person, for before he joined the couple's hands Jimmy jumped about in a startling way, uttering wild gibberish, and after the ceremony was over there was rough work, with incantations and blowing on pipes.
Auld Licht Idyls
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Demring hurried on, in a scandalized voice: "When we had fared thus far, we found the darkness was dust and gas such as pervade the universe at home.
Explorations
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To that sister Lady Edgermond the second does not behave exactly in the traditionally novercal fashion, but she is scandalised by the girl's
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century
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But it was the visual image of the tribes that scandalised the public: the bovver boots and crops of the skins; the safety pins and loo-brush hairdos of the punks.
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As a youth he had scandalized his family by studying medicine, and had published at Rome, at great expense, a treatise on the difficulty of belching while lying down.
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When I came to pick up the order, I was scandalized by the seemingly outrageous price and refused to accept them.
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Australia's continuing loss of defence capability would scandalise the Australian people if the whole truth were to be revealed.
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At other tables, young men and women were clearly out on dates, unchaperoned and unblushing, drinking coffee and smoking cigarettes - a far cry from my first trip back seven years ago when I had scandalised my family by openly smoking.
