scandalize
verb (used with object)
to shock or horrify by something considered immoral or improper.
scandalise
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a variation of
scandalize.
Example Sentences
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"If your Lordship should consider that these observations may disgust or scandalise the learned, I earnestly beg your Lordship to regard them as private and to publish or destroy them as your Lordship sees fit."
From Salon ● Jan. 2, 2023
Whereas if you’re the kind of convention-flouter willing to scandalise elderly family members by cohabiting, you’ll surely also be more willing to contemplate divorce.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 16, 2018
Many of the gags will scandalise even the most open-minded audience but for those who can cope with the onslaught it's a cathartic and hilarious experience.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 15, 2012
The behaviour of a fast set in a wealthy country house—which is generally more vulgar than really naughty—would probably scandalise the dwellers in a back street.
From The Law and the Poor by Edward Abbott Parry
He used also, in telling the story, to scandalise the clergyman of his parish by quoting the evangelists, and especially St. John's narrative of Mary Magdalen at the sepulchre.
From News from the Duchy by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
