Scandalous

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Causing scandal; shocking: scandalous behavior.
  • adj. Containing material damaging to reputation; defamatory: a scandalous exposé.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. wrong, immoral, causing a scandal
  • adj. malicious, defamatory
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Giving offense to the conscience or moral feelings; exciting reprobation; calling out condemnation.
  • adj. Disgraceful to reputation; bringing shame or infamy; opprobrious.
  • adj. Defamatory; libelous.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Causing scandal or offense; exciting reproach or reprobation; extremely offensive to the sense of duty or propriety; shameful; shocking.
  • Opprobrious; disgraceful to reputation; that brings shame or infamy: as, a scandalous crime or vice.
  • Defamatory; libelous; slanderous: as, a scandalous report; in law procedure, defamatory or indecent, and not necessary to the presentation of the party's case.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. giving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to reputation
    • Equivalent
    immoral   
    Form
    scandalously    scandalousness   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    opprobrious    defamatory    libelous    discreditable    abusive   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    shameful    indecent    outrageous    absurd    atrocious   
     
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