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单词 scandalize
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scandalize1

(British scandalise)
verb ˈskand(ə)lʌɪzˈskændlˌaɪz
[with object]
  • Shock or horrify (someone) by a real or imagined violation of propriety or morality.

    their lack of manners scandalized their hosts
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Some people of the old guard are still scandalised by public kissing.
    • Worse still, we seem to have fixed upon a great many varieties that scandalise me.
    • 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.
    • Such people are scandalized by the existence of two entirely homosexual city quarters in San Francisco.
    • 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.
    • The preacher's adulteries scandalize the Scripture-reading congregation of Zion Hope.
    • Unable to resist scandalising his guests still further, Hunter then delivered his pièce de résistance.
    • The visitors were scandalized by the chastisements imposed by the French upon their children.
    • He was scandalised by her moral stand on political issues.
    • It found him in contempt of court, and found that he had attempted to scandalise the Family Court.
    • The people in the town liked to pay attention to made up stories that would ‘simply scandalize the neighbors!’
    • Australia's continuing loss of defence capability would scandalise the Australian people if the whole truth were to be revealed.
    • 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.
    • Not only did Jesus scandalize these leaders by the company he kept, he went so far as to openly confront their hypocrisy.
    • His father has been scandalising us for years, despite repeated attempts to muzzle him.
    • When I came to pick up the order, I was scandalized by the seemingly outrageous price and refused to accept them.
    • How about you pick something else to scandalize him with?
    • Jesus scandalized people by speaking God's law in his own name.
    • A person of weak morals would have gone out to scandalise his colleagues even on matters he agreed with.
    • This profession scandalizes her mother, a member of the local gentry, a class slightly above that of most of the people Enid cares for.
    Synonyms
    shock, appal, outrage, horrify, disgust, revolt, repel, sicken, nauseate
    offend, give offence to, affront, insult, cause raised eyebrows

Origin

Late 15th century (in the sense 'make a public scandal of'): from French scandaliser or ecclesiastical Latin scandalizare, from Greek skandalizein.

scandalize2

(British scandalise)
verb ˈskand(ə)lʌɪzˈskændlˌaɪz
[with object]Sailing
  • Reduce the area of (a sail) by lowering the head or raising the boom.

Origin

Mid 19th century: alteration of obsolete scantelize, from scantle 'make small'.

 
 

scandalize1

(British scandalise)
verbˈskandlˌīzˈskændlˌaɪz
[with object]
  • Shock or horrify (someone) by a real or imagined violation of propriety or morality.

    their lack of manners scandalized their hosts
    Example sentencesExamples
    • How about you pick something else to scandalize him with?
    • Not only did Jesus scandalize these leaders by the company he kept, he went so far as to openly confront their hypocrisy.
    • Some people of the old guard are still scandalised by public kissing.
    • The visitors were scandalized by the chastisements imposed by the French upon their children.
    • Jesus scandalized people by speaking God's law in his own name.
    • Worse still, we seem to have fixed upon a great many varieties that scandalise me.
    • 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.
    • He was scandalised by her moral stand on political issues.
    • The preacher's adulteries scandalize the Scripture-reading congregation of Zion Hope.
    • Unable to resist scandalising his guests still further, Hunter then delivered his pièce de résistance.
    • It found him in contempt of court, and found that he had attempted to scandalise the Family Court.
    • When I came to pick up the order, I was scandalized by the seemingly outrageous price and refused to accept them.
    • 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.
    • His father has been scandalising us for years, despite repeated attempts to muzzle him.
    • 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.
    • The people in the town liked to pay attention to made up stories that would ‘simply scandalize the neighbors!’
    • Such people are scandalized by the existence of two entirely homosexual city quarters in San Francisco.
    • This profession scandalizes her mother, a member of the local gentry, a class slightly above that of most of the people Enid cares for.
    • A person of weak morals would have gone out to scandalise his colleagues even on matters he agreed with.
    • Australia's continuing loss of defence capability would scandalise the Australian people if the whole truth were to be revealed.
    Synonyms
    shock, appal, outrage, horrify, disgust, revolt, repel, sicken, nauseate

Origin

Late 15th century (in the sense ‘make a public scandal of’): from French scandaliser or ecclesiastical Latin scandalizare, from Greek skandalizein.

scandalize2

(British scandalise)
verbˈskandlˌīzˈskændlˌaɪz
[with object]Sailing
  • Reduce the area of (a fore-and-aft sail) by lowering the head or raising the boom.

Origin

Mid 19th century: alteration of obsolete scantelize, from scantle ‘make small’.

 
 
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