Definition of Scandalous

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Scandalous

Giving offense to the conscience or moral feelings; exciting reprobation; calling out condemnation.

Disgraceful to reputation; bringing shame or infamy; opprobrious; as, a scandalous crime or vice.

Defamatory; libelous; as, a scandalous story.

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Scandalous Quotations

The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels.
Simone de Beauvoir

People equate sexy with promiscuous. They think that because I'm shaped this way, I must be scandalous - like running around and bringing men into my hotel room. But it's just the opposite.
Jennifer Lopez

Me, I'd prefer to have a good reputation rather than getting press for being scandalous, getting drunk in public, staying out late and so on.
Sophia Bush

When a woman drinks it's as if an animal were drinking, or a child. Alcoholism is scandalous in a woman, and a female alcoholic is rare, a serious matter. It's a slur on the divine in our nature.
Marguerite Duras

Scandalous Translations

scandalous in French is scandaleux
scandalous in Spanish is escandaloso

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