scandalous
pronunciation
How to pronounce scandalous in British English:
UK [ˈskændələs]
How to pronounce scandalous in American English:
US [ˈskændləs]
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- Adjective:
- giving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to reputation
Word Origin
- scandalous (adj.)
- late 15c., from French scandaleux, from Medieval Latin scandalosus "scandalous," from Church Latin scandalum (see scandal). Related: Scandalously.
Example
- 1. Party fund-raising is a scandalous source of corruption .
- 2. They are not honestly scandalous with the awful dirty pornographic glee of the italians .
- 3. But despite marijuana 's power to relieve pain and nausea without loss of consciousness we were afraid she would find even the suggestion of it scandalous .
- 4. In 2002 , after the scandalous collapses of enron and worldcom , congress voted in the sarbanes-oxley act , which was intended among other things to beef up corporate risk-management .
- 5. The country 's refusal to commit forces to the war on iraq in 2003 was interpreted in the united states -- not only in government but in the american media and public opinion -- as the consequence of a pacifist doctrine and even as a scandalous betrayal of its allies .