Example Sentences

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While every show had its own brand of scandalousness, “Jerry” became the juiciest, the tawdriest, the ultimate lowbrow modern-day freak show.

From New York Times • Jan. 17, 2018

So technically, examiners are still being told to refuse marks for scandalousness.

From The Verge • Jul. 25, 2017

"I don't think so, because beyond scandalousness and fame other qualities are needed."

From Seattle Times • Mar. 20, 2013

It occurred to me that for once in my life I would show the scandalousness of such a belief by being a trifle too soon, say, three minutes.

From Note Book of an English Opium-Eater by De Quincey, Thomas

The sinfulness, scandalousness, and inconveniences of which transactions, are abundantly demonstrated by a treatise thereupon, intitled, the banders disbanded.

From A Hind Let Loose Or, An Historical Representation of the Testimonies of the Church of Scotland for the Interest of Christ. With the True State Thereof in All Its Periods by Shields, Alexander