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Definition of Scandalous
1. Adjective. Giving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to reputation. "The most shocking book of its time"
Similar to: Immoral
Derivative terms: Scandal, Scandalousness, Shamefulness
Definition of Scandalous
1. a. Giving offense to the conscience or moral feelings; exciting reprobation; calling out condemnation.
Definition of Scandalous
1. Adjective. wrong, immoral, causing a scandal ¹
2. Adjective. malicious, defamatory ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Scandalous
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scandalous
Literary usage of Scandalous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Harleian Miscellany: Or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and by William Oldys, John Malham (1810)
"... And for removing of scandalous Ministers in the seven associated Counties.
WHEREAS many complaints are made by the well-affected Inhabitants of the ..."
2. Publications (1848)
"... consequently, if the world, or civil state, ought to be preserved by civil
government or governors, such scandalous offenders ought not to be tolerated, ..."
3. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1905)
"scandalous. The term "scandalous," aя applied to the pleading of scandalous
matter, cannot be applied to any matter which is not also impertinent, ..."
4. Daniel Defoe: His Life and Recently Discovered Writings: Extending from 1716 by Lee, William, Daniel Defoe (1869)
"scandalous News-Writers further Corrected. AJ, Mar. \6.—Sir, When I mention'd to
you in my last the scandalous Method of News Writing Authors,—who daily ..."
5. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: During by Great Britain Court of Chancery, Edward Thurlow Thurlow, Alexander Wedderburn Rosslyn, Jonathan Cogswell Perkins (1845)
"AFFIDAVIT in Bankruptcy ordered to be taken off the File, as irrelevant and
scandalous ; with costs as between attorney and client. ..."
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