scandalous

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   giving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to reputation

   Scandalous behavior.

2. 2
   adj

   Of a thing: causing or having the nature of a scandal; regarded as so immoral or wrong as to be extremely disgraceful; despicable, shameful.

   [S]omthing ſauors / Of Tyrannie, and vvill ignoble make you, / Yea, ſcandalous to the VVorld.

3. 3
   adj

   Of a person: delighted by scandal.

   You are the stateliest deer in all the herd— / Beyond his aim—but I am small and scandalous, / And love to hear bad tales of Philip.

4. 4
   adj

   Of speech or writing: defamatory, malicious.

   Theſe be the ſcandalous reportes of ſuch, / As loues not mee, and hate my Lord too much.

Common collocations

• scandalous behavior Adjective + noun

From Late Middle English scandalouse (“disgraceful, shameful”), borrowed from Old French scandaleux (“scandalous”) (modern French scandaleux), from Medieval Latin scandalōsus, from Ecclesiastical Latin scandalum (“scandal”) + Latin -ōsus (suffix meaning ‘full of; prone to’ forming adjectives). Scandalum is derived from Ancient Greek σκᾰ́νδᾰλον (skắndălon, “offence, scandal; snare, trap”); further etymology uncertain, possibly from Pre-Greek or Proto-Indo-European *skend- (“to jump”) (referring to a device for climbing or jumping on, such as might be used by someone setting a trap). By surface...

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