Scandalous \Scan"dal*ous\, a. [Cf. F. scandaleux.]
1. Giving offense to the conscience or moral feelings;
exciting reprobation; calling out condemnation.
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Nothing scandalous or offensive unto any. --Hooker.
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2. Disgraceful to reputation; bringing shame or infamy;
opprobrious; as, a scandalous crime or vice.
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3. Defamatory; libelous; as, a scandalous story.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
scandalous
adj : giving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to
reputation; "scandalous behavior"; "the wicked rascally
shameful conduct of the bankrupt"- Thackeray; "the most
shocking book of its time" [syn: disgraceful, shameful,
shocking]
WordNet (r) 2.0
179 Moby Thesaurus words for "scandalous":
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
disgraceful, shameful, shocking
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