Scandalous
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Adjective
Scandalous (comparative more Scandalous, superlative most Scandalous)
- wrong, immoral, causing a scandal
- 1884, Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- The thing made a big stir in the town, too, and a good many come out flatfooted and said it was scandalous to separate the mother and the children that way.
- 1884, Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- malicious, defamatory
- 1592, Thomas Kyd, The Spanish Tragedie
- These be the scandalous reports of such / As loves not me, and hate my lord too much.
- 1887, Marie Corelli, Thelma
- I always disregard gossip--it is generally scandalous, and seldom true.
- 1592, Thomas Kyd, The Spanish Tragedie
Adverbs for Scandalous
unfortunately; openly; uncommonly; arrantly; terribly; shamefully; undeniably; flagrantly; admittedly; highly; regrettably; sadly; deplorably; grossly; notably.
Thesaurus
aberrant, abnormal, abominable, abusive, arrant, atrocious, awful, back-biting, backbiting, bad, base, beastly, belittling, beneath contempt, beneath one, bitchy, black, blamable, blameworthy, brutal, calumniatory, calumnious, catty, censorious, cheap, contemptible, contemptuous, contumelious, criminal, crying, damnable, dark, debasing, defamatory, degrading, delinquent, demeaning, deplorable, deprecatory, depreciative, depreciatory, derisive, derisory, derogative, derogatory, desperate, despicable, detestable, detracting, detractory, deviant, dire, disgraceful, disgusting, dishonorable, disparaging, disreputable, dreadful, egregious, enormous, evil, execrable, fetid, filthy, flagitious, flagrant, foul, fulsome, grievous, gross, gutter, hardly the thing, hateful, heinous, horrible, horrid, humiliating, humiliative, ignominious, illegal, immodest, immoral, improper, inappropriate, incorrect, indecent, indecorous, infamous, infra dig, infra indignitatem, iniquitous, injurious, knavish, lamentable, lascivious, lecherous, lewd, libelous, licentious, loathsome, lousy, low, lustful, maligning, minimizing, monstrous, nasty, naughty, nefarious, noisome, not done, not the thing, notorious, obnoxious, odious, off-base, off-color, offensive, opprobrious, out-of-line, outrageous, peccant, pejorative, pitiable, pitiful, profligate, rank, regrettable, reprehensible, reprobate, repulsive, ridiculing, rotten, sacrilegious, sad, schlock, scurrile, scurrilous, scurvy, shabby, shameful, shameless, shocking, shoddy, sinful, slanderous, slighting, sordid, sorry, squalid, taboo, terrible, too bad, unbecoming, unclean, undue, unfit, unfitting, unforgivable, unlawful, unmentionable, unpardonable, unrighteous, unseemly, unspeakable, unsuitable, unworthy, unworthy of one, vicious, vile, vilifying, villainous, wicked, woeful, worst, worthless, wretched, wrong, wrongful
Etymology
From Medieval Latin scandalosus, via French scandaleuse; as if scandal + -ous.
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