scandalize
verb (used with object)
to shock or horrify by something considered immoral or improper.
scandalizes
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present tense formof scandalize (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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An expression should never be banned for just being extremely offensive, regardless of whether it scandalizes a religious or any other type of cherished concept.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 19, 2022
Instead of treating them like the NFL’s beneficent owner-demigods, responsible for the league’s and players’ fortunes, college football instead ignores, scandalizes, and criminalizes any serious valuation of its athletes.
From Slate ● Dec. 1, 2020
Equally noteworthy are Georgia's "My Happy Family," a fine naturalistic examination of a 50-something woman whose desire to live alone scandalizes her patriarchal culture.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 19, 2017
When he retires, humiliated by his incompetence, she scandalizes his parents by leaving him and going to work herself, at her old job.
From Time Magazine Archive
It scandalizes the biographers that the Prince, on one occasion, made La Bruyère dance a pas seul before him, twanging a tune on the guitar.
From Three French Moralists and The Gallantry of France by Edmund Gosse
