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Webster 1913 Edition


Scandalous

Scan′dal-ous

,
Adj.
[Cf. F.
scandaleux
.]
1.
Giving offense to the conscience or moral feelings; exciting reprobation; calling out condemnation.
Nothing
scandalous
or offensive unto any.
Hooker.
2.
Disgraceful to reputation; bringing shame or infamy; opprobrious;
as, a
scandalous
crime or vice
.
3.
Defamatory; libelous;
as, a
scandalous
story
.

Webster 1828 Edition


Scandalous

SCAN'DALOUS

,
Adj.
1.
Giving offense.
Nothing scandalous or offensive to any.
2.
Opprobrious; disgraceful to reputation; that brings shame or infamy; as a scandalous crime or vice. How perverted must be the mind that considers seduction or dueling less scandalous than larceny!
3.
Defamatory.

Definition 2024


scandalous

scandalous

English

Adjective

scandalous (comparative more scandalous, superlative most scandalous)

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
    • 2012 June 26, Genevieve Koski, “Music: Reviews: Justin Bieber: Believe”, in The Onion AV Club:
      The closest Believe gets to scandalous is on the deluxe-edition bonus track “Maria,” a response song to the woman who accused Bieber of fathering her child in 2011.

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