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SCANDALOUS
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Giving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to reputation
Example:
the most shocking book of its time
Synonyms:
disgraceful; scandalous; shameful; shocking
Classified under:
Similar:
immoral (deliberately violating accepted principles of right and wrong)
Derivation:
scandal (a disgraceful event)
scandalousness (disgracefulness that offends public morality)
Context examples:
This was the letter—A most scandalous, ill-natured rumour has just reached me, and I write, dear Fanny, to warn you against giving the least credit to it, should it spread into the country.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Though I know it must be a scandalous falsehood, though I would not injure him so much as to suppose the truth of it possible, I instantly resolved on setting off for this place, that I might make my sentiments known to you.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
Day after day passed away without bringing any other tidings of him than the report which shortly prevailed in Meryton of his coming no more to Netherfield the whole winter; a report which highly incensed Mrs. Bennet, and which she never failed to contradict as a most scandalous falsehood.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
