Definition of scandalous in English:

scandalous

adjective ˈskandələsˈskændləs

1Causing general public outrage by a perceived offence against morality or law.
a series of scandalous liaisons
a scandalous allegation
Example sentencesExamples
- The crowd eventually dispersed, displeased that the scandalous royalty show had ended.
- But there's nothing remotely scandalous about this reality-based movie.
- She must have married him for his money, speculated Scotland's shocked upper classes when the scandalous news of the secret wedding ceremony leaked out.
- The allegations of a scandalous incident have been circulating inside media offices for weeks now.
- They are normally only awarded where the conduct can be described as reprehensible, scandalous or outrageous.
- But I've never had anything that was so scandalous and that really might have affected my career so much.
- His life wasn't short of exciting or scandalous material.
- Here's one of the most scandalous guys in the American public right now so he's got to at least be able to go into the store and be innocuous.
- Substantial indemnity costs are reserved for cases involving reprehensible, scandalous or outrageous conduct.
- Men and women limit their greetings to a handshake; kissing in public is considered scandalous.
- The woman, it appears, had not only been jilted by the drapery assistant but he had also ‘circulated a scandalous report about her’.
- There had to be scandalous behavior and the scandal needed to be known generally.
- In order to protect the guilty, Morin won't name names, which is probably just as well given the litany of scandalous events chronicled in the book.
- ‘If such allegations are proven to be true then that is scandalous,’ he said.
- Their descendants, too, have hidden and sometimes even destroyed potentially scandalous objects.
- At the moment, it's just an uncoordinated scandalous calamity.
- I find that there has not been any conduct on the part of the plaintiff that is scandalous, reprehensible or outrageous.
- But such utter disrespect and scandalous behavior never marked those debates.
- Elizabeth kept her virginity, but the affair was scandalous because Robert was already married.
- But this old affair, scandalous enough to serve as a motive for a Greek tragedy, arose from the similarity of their characters.
Synonyms
discreditable, disreputable, dishonourable, improper, unseemly, sordid
scurrilous, malicious, slanderous, libellous, defamatory
rare calumnious, calumniatory, aspersive
1. 1.1 (of a state of affairs) disgracefully bad.
  a scandalous waste of ratepayers' money
  Example sentencesExamples
  ‘It is scandalous in this day and age that we have resorted to exporting our own children,’ she said.
  A report from Western Australia has uncovered a scandalous neglect of the physical health of people with mental illness.
  Within days they were as gaping as they had ever been, and this exercise in futility simply amounts to a scandalous waste of money.
  ‘Institutional investors have been behaving in way that is little short of scandalous,’ he contends.
  It is scandalous that we still allocate scarce homeland security dollars on the basis of pork barrel spending and not on risk.
  But to date, no one has expressed the slightest interest in this scandalous state of affairs.
  There had been a scandalous failure of intelligence gathering behind the exaggerated estimation of Soviet strength.
  Instead, the series has drawn flak from right-wing media as a scandalous waste of NHS cash that should have been spent on direct patient care.
  ‘It really is quite scandalous the way the company has behaved,’ she said.
  There will be measures to improve the currently scandalous state pensions paid to many women.
  ‘This was a scandalous attack on an elderly woman in her own home,’ he said.
  Indeed she is rightly such a firm favourite that any election would be a scandalous waste of time and money.
  The council seems to be hell-bent on penalising the citizens of York, who are most affected by the scandalous parking charges imposed in the evening.
  I find the general silence and lack of memory absolutely scandalous.
  To my parents, a couple of cups of sugar seemed a scandalous amount to waste on such an uncertain experiment.
  It is scandalous that an offence that was committed on September 23 should not have been dealt with until last week.
  It's scandalous they awarded themselves a huge hike in salaries on top of that €16,000 to sit on committees.
  That would be a scandalous waste of an historic building and community facility.
  ‘It is scandalous that you have to wait so long for an inquiry,’ says Adam.
  Clearly this scandalous abuse of public funds must be stopped.
  Synonyms
  disgraceful, shocking, outrageous, monstrous, criminal, wicked, sinful, shameful, atrocious, appalling, terrible, dreadful, disgusting, abhorrent, despicable, deplorable, reprehensible, obscene, iniquitous, inexcusable, intolerable, insupportable, unforgivable, unpardonable
  rare egregious

Derivatives

scandalously

adverb ˈskandələsliˈskænd(ə)ləsli

We urge the Government to act on the report's recommendations, channelling resources into the NHS that have been scandalously lacking in the past.
Example sentencesExamples
- In her late twenties - a scandalously late age - she married.
- That explains the bullyboy tactics and the arbitrary, unilateral narrowing of just what can be reconciled and what can't, as defined by the scandalously leading and biased questions on which British Columbians were asked to vote.
- Is it prepared to recognise that we are, in comparison to our Scandinavian neighbours in the north, and now, even to England in the south, scandalously under-funded?
- Albeit scandalously late, the magistrate took this decisive step after the prosecution's 12 witnesses had failed to appear 31 times.

scandalousness

nounˈskandələsnəsˈskænd(ə)ləsnəs

Her perfect nose crinkled in pure scandalousness.

Definition of scandalous in US English:

scandalous

adjectiveˈskandləsˈskændləs

1Causing general public outrage by a perceived offense against morality or law.
a series of scandalous liaisons
a scandalous allegation
Example sentencesExamples
- They are normally only awarded where the conduct can be described as reprehensible, scandalous or outrageous.
- But such utter disrespect and scandalous behavior never marked those debates.
- Their descendants, too, have hidden and sometimes even destroyed potentially scandalous objects.
- Substantial indemnity costs are reserved for cases involving reprehensible, scandalous or outrageous conduct.
- Here's one of the most scandalous guys in the American public right now so he's got to at least be able to go into the store and be innocuous.
- Elizabeth kept her virginity, but the affair was scandalous because Robert was already married.
- But I've never had anything that was so scandalous and that really might have affected my career so much.
- At the moment, it's just an uncoordinated scandalous calamity.
- His life wasn't short of exciting or scandalous material.
- ‘If such allegations are proven to be true then that is scandalous,’ he said.
- I find that there has not been any conduct on the part of the plaintiff that is scandalous, reprehensible or outrageous.
- But there's nothing remotely scandalous about this reality-based movie.
- Men and women limit their greetings to a handshake; kissing in public is considered scandalous.
- The woman, it appears, had not only been jilted by the drapery assistant but he had also ‘circulated a scandalous report about her’.
- In order to protect the guilty, Morin won't name names, which is probably just as well given the litany of scandalous events chronicled in the book.
- She must have married him for his money, speculated Scotland's shocked upper classes when the scandalous news of the secret wedding ceremony leaked out.
- The allegations of a scandalous incident have been circulating inside media offices for weeks now.
- But this old affair, scandalous enough to serve as a motive for a Greek tragedy, arose from the similarity of their characters.
- There had to be scandalous behavior and the scandal needed to be known generally.
- The crowd eventually dispersed, displeased that the scandalous royalty show had ended.
Synonyms
discreditable, disreputable, dishonourable, improper, unseemly, sordid
scurrilous, malicious, slanderous, libellous, defamatory
1. 1.1 (of a state of affairs) disgracefully bad, typically as a result of someone's negligence or irresponsibility.
  a scandalous waste of taxpayers' money
  Example sentencesExamples
  I find the general silence and lack of memory absolutely scandalous.
  Clearly this scandalous abuse of public funds must be stopped.
  The council seems to be hell-bent on penalising the citizens of York, who are most affected by the scandalous parking charges imposed in the evening.
  It's scandalous they awarded themselves a huge hike in salaries on top of that €16,000 to sit on committees.
  Indeed she is rightly such a firm favourite that any election would be a scandalous waste of time and money.
  Within days they were as gaping as they had ever been, and this exercise in futility simply amounts to a scandalous waste of money.
  There will be measures to improve the currently scandalous state pensions paid to many women.
  Instead, the series has drawn flak from right-wing media as a scandalous waste of NHS cash that should have been spent on direct patient care.
  ‘This was a scandalous attack on an elderly woman in her own home,’ he said.
  That would be a scandalous waste of an historic building and community facility.
  ‘It is scandalous in this day and age that we have resorted to exporting our own children,’ she said.
  ‘Institutional investors have been behaving in way that is little short of scandalous,’ he contends.
  To my parents, a couple of cups of sugar seemed a scandalous amount to waste on such an uncertain experiment.
  There had been a scandalous failure of intelligence gathering behind the exaggerated estimation of Soviet strength.
  But to date, no one has expressed the slightest interest in this scandalous state of affairs.
  A report from Western Australia has uncovered a scandalous neglect of the physical health of people with mental illness.
  ‘It really is quite scandalous the way the company has behaved,’ she said.
  ‘It is scandalous that you have to wait so long for an inquiry,’ says Adam.
  It is scandalous that an offence that was committed on September 23 should not have been dealt with until last week.
  It is scandalous that we still allocate scarce homeland security dollars on the basis of pork barrel spending and not on risk.
  Synonyms
  disgraceful, shocking, outrageous, monstrous, criminal, wicked, sinful, shameful, atrocious, appalling, terrible, dreadful, disgusting, abhorrent, despicable, deplorable, reprehensible, obscene, iniquitous, inexcusable, intolerable, insupportable, unforgivable, unpardonable

单词	scandalous
释义	Definition of scandalous in English: scandalous adjective ˈskandələsˈskændləs 1Causing general public outrage by a perceived offence against morality or law. a series of scandalous liaisons a scandalous allegation Example sentencesExamples The crowd eventually dispersed, displeased that the scandalous royalty show had ended. But there's nothing remotely scandalous about this reality-based movie. She must have married him for his money, speculated Scotland's shocked upper classes when the scandalous news of the secret wedding ceremony leaked out. The allegations of a scandalous incident have been circulating inside media offices for weeks now. They are normally only awarded where the conduct can be described as reprehensible, scandalous or outrageous. But I've never had anything that was so scandalous and that really might have affected my career so much. His life wasn't short of exciting or scandalous material. Here's one of the most scandalous guys in the American public right now so he's got to at least be able to go into the store and be innocuous. Substantial indemnity costs are reserved for cases involving reprehensible, scandalous or outrageous conduct. Men and women limit their greetings to a handshake; kissing in public is considered scandalous. The woman, it appears, had not only been jilted by the drapery assistant but he had also ‘circulated a scandalous report about her’. There had to be scandalous behavior and the scandal needed to be known generally. In order to protect the guilty, Morin won't name names, which is probably just as well given the litany of scandalous events chronicled in the book. ‘If such allegations are proven to be true then that is scandalous,’ he said. Their descendants, too, have hidden and sometimes even destroyed potentially scandalous objects. At the moment, it's just an uncoordinated scandalous calamity. I find that there has not been any conduct on the part of the plaintiff that is scandalous, reprehensible or outrageous. But such utter disrespect and scandalous behavior never marked those debates. Elizabeth kept her virginity, but the affair was scandalous because Robert was already married. But this old affair, scandalous enough to serve as a motive for a Greek tragedy, arose from the similarity of their characters. Synonyms discreditable, disreputable, dishonourable, improper, unseemly, sordid scurrilous, malicious, slanderous, libellous, defamatory rare calumnious, calumniatory, aspersive 1.1 (of a state of affairs) disgracefully bad. a scandalous waste of ratepayers' money Example sentencesExamples ‘It is scandalous in this day and age that we have resorted to exporting our own children,’ she said. A report from Western Australia has uncovered a scandalous neglect of the physical health of people with mental illness. Within days they were as gaping as they had ever been, and this exercise in futility simply amounts to a scandalous waste of money. ‘Institutional investors have been behaving in way that is little short of scandalous,’ he contends. It is scandalous that we still allocate scarce homeland security dollars on the basis of pork barrel spending and not on risk. But to date, no one has expressed the slightest interest in this scandalous state of affairs. There had been a scandalous failure of intelligence gathering behind the exaggerated estimation of Soviet strength. Instead, the series has drawn flak from right-wing media as a scandalous waste of NHS cash that should have been spent on direct patient care. ‘It really is quite scandalous the way the company has behaved,’ she said. There will be measures to improve the currently scandalous state pensions paid to many women. ‘This was a scandalous attack on an elderly woman in her own home,’ he said. Indeed she is rightly such a firm favourite that any election would be a scandalous waste of time and money. The council seems to be hell-bent on penalising the citizens of York, who are most affected by the scandalous parking charges imposed in the evening. I find the general silence and lack of memory absolutely scandalous. To my parents, a couple of cups of sugar seemed a scandalous amount to waste on such an uncertain experiment. It is scandalous that an offence that was committed on September 23 should not have been dealt with until last week. It's scandalous they awarded themselves a huge hike in salaries on top of that €16,000 to sit on committees. That would be a scandalous waste of an historic building and community facility. ‘It is scandalous that you have to wait so long for an inquiry,’ says Adam. Clearly this scandalous abuse of public funds must be stopped. Synonyms disgraceful, shocking, outrageous, monstrous, criminal, wicked, sinful, shameful, atrocious, appalling, terrible, dreadful, disgusting, abhorrent, despicable, deplorable, reprehensible, obscene, iniquitous, inexcusable, intolerable, insupportable, unforgivable, unpardonable rare egregious Derivatives scandalously adverb ˈskandələsliˈskænd(ə)ləsli We urge the Government to act on the report's recommendations, channelling resources into the NHS that have been scandalously lacking in the past. Example sentencesExamples In her late twenties - a scandalously late age - she married. That explains the bullyboy tactics and the arbitrary, unilateral narrowing of just what can be reconciled and what can't, as defined by the scandalously leading and biased questions on which British Columbians were asked to vote. Is it prepared to recognise that we are, in comparison to our Scandinavian neighbours in the north, and now, even to England in the south, scandalously under-funded? Albeit scandalously late, the magistrate took this decisive step after the prosecution's 12 witnesses had failed to appear 31 times. scandalousness nounˈskandələsnəsˈskænd(ə)ləsnəs Her perfect nose crinkled in pure scandalousness. Definition of scandalous in US English: scandalous adjectiveˈskandləsˈskændləs 1Causing general public outrage by a perceived offense against morality or law. a series of scandalous liaisons a scandalous allegation Example sentencesExamples They are normally only awarded where the conduct can be described as reprehensible, scandalous or outrageous. But such utter disrespect and scandalous behavior never marked those debates. Their descendants, too, have hidden and sometimes even destroyed potentially scandalous objects. Substantial indemnity costs are reserved for cases involving reprehensible, scandalous or outrageous conduct. Here's one of the most scandalous guys in the American public right now so he's got to at least be able to go into the store and be innocuous. Elizabeth kept her virginity, but the affair was scandalous because Robert was already married. But I've never had anything that was so scandalous and that really might have affected my career so much. At the moment, it's just an uncoordinated scandalous calamity. His life wasn't short of exciting or scandalous material. ‘If such allegations are proven to be true then that is scandalous,’ he said. I find that there has not been any conduct on the part of the plaintiff that is scandalous, reprehensible or outrageous. But there's nothing remotely scandalous about this reality-based movie. Men and women limit their greetings to a handshake; kissing in public is considered scandalous. The woman, it appears, had not only been jilted by the drapery assistant but he had also ‘circulated a scandalous report about her’. In order to protect the guilty, Morin won't name names, which is probably just as well given the litany of scandalous events chronicled in the book. She must have married him for his money, speculated Scotland's shocked upper classes when the scandalous news of the secret wedding ceremony leaked out. The allegations of a scandalous incident have been circulating inside media offices for weeks now. But this old affair, scandalous enough to serve as a motive for a Greek tragedy, arose from the similarity of their characters. There had to be scandalous behavior and the scandal needed to be known generally. The crowd eventually dispersed, displeased that the scandalous royalty show had ended. Synonyms discreditable, disreputable, dishonourable, improper, unseemly, sordid scurrilous, malicious, slanderous, libellous, defamatory 1.1 (of a state of affairs) disgracefully bad, typically as a result of someone's negligence or irresponsibility. a scandalous waste of taxpayers' money Example sentencesExamples I find the general silence and lack of memory absolutely scandalous. Clearly this scandalous abuse of public funds must be stopped. The council seems to be hell-bent on penalising the citizens of York, who are most affected by the scandalous parking charges imposed in the evening. It's scandalous they awarded themselves a huge hike in salaries on top of that €16,000 to sit on committees. Indeed she is rightly such a firm favourite that any election would be a scandalous waste of time and money. Within days they were as gaping as they had ever been, and this exercise in futility simply amounts to a scandalous waste of money. There will be measures to improve the currently scandalous state pensions paid to many women. Instead, the series has drawn flak from right-wing media as a scandalous waste of NHS cash that should have been spent on direct patient care. ‘This was a scandalous attack on an elderly woman in her own home,’ he said. That would be a scandalous waste of an historic building and community facility. ‘It is scandalous in this day and age that we have resorted to exporting our own children,’ she said. ‘Institutional investors have been behaving in way that is little short of scandalous,’ he contends. To my parents, a couple of cups of sugar seemed a scandalous amount to waste on such an uncertain experiment. There had been a scandalous failure of intelligence gathering behind the exaggerated estimation of Soviet strength. But to date, no one has expressed the slightest interest in this scandalous state of affairs. A report from Western Australia has uncovered a scandalous neglect of the physical health of people with mental illness. ‘It really is quite scandalous the way the company has behaved,’ she said. ‘It is scandalous that you have to wait so long for an inquiry,’ says Adam. It is scandalous that an offence that was committed on September 23 should not have been dealt with until last week. It is scandalous that we still allocate scarce homeland security dollars on the basis of pork barrel spending and not on risk. Synonyms disgraceful, shocking, outrageous, monstrous, criminal, wicked, sinful, shameful, atrocious, appalling, terrible, dreadful, disgusting, abhorrent, despicable, deplorable, reprehensible, obscene, iniquitous, inexcusable, intolerable, insupportable, unforgivable, unpardonable
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