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
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 Jean Jules Jusserand
His contract does not permit him to travel in company with ladies, nor may he scandalise the community in which he resides.
From Ivory Apes and Peacocks by James Huneker
