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Twelve-foot-high walls obscured the view of statues that had scandalized his neighbors.

From Washington Post • Jul. 8, 2022

The scene, highly controversial in Galsworthy’s novel, had scandalized television audiences in 1967.

From New York Times • Sep. 21, 2012

Alexandra’s mad cleaving to Rasputin had scandalized Europe, and her potential for causing trouble in England during difficult times remained considerable.

From New York Times • Apr. 2, 2010

General George Smith Patton Jr., who had scandalized his fellow officers and angered the U.S. public, whose promotion the U.S.

From Time Magazine Archive

Moreover, my opinion on the Asylum of the Holy Spirit had scandalized Dr. Hoyer, and the provider of the St. Brigitta institute had exclaimed with an oath: "Profecto tu es Lutheranus."

From Bartholomew Sastrow Being the Memoirs of a German Burgomaster by Sastrow, Bartholomew