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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

"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

Finally there are nuns, reserved, quiet, neat as ermines, who are going to hear on the way enough to scandalise them all the rest of their lives.

From A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance by Jusserand, Jean Jules