scandalize
verb (used with object)
to shock or horrify by something considered immoral or improper.
will scandalize
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future tenseof scandalize.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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The question is no longer whether the latest revelation will scandalize Jim Bob sitting in a truck stop, but whether or not it's legally substantive evidence to be included in articles of impeachment.
From Salon ● Oct. 18, 2019
Between tucks, Father Dominic will inquire casually into the state of my soul, and the information thus elicited will scandalize the old saint.
From The Pride of Palomar by Peter B. (Peter Bernard) Kyne
Their perfection aureoled I will scandalize: Won't I be a hoary old sinner in their eyes!
From Ballads of a Bohemian by Robert W. (Robert William) Service
Monsieur le marquis," replied the Abbe Gudin, haughtily; "you will scandalize all Brittany if you give that ball at Saint James.
From The Chouans by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
At any rate you must all be ready now to judge the religious life by its results exclusively, and I shall assume that the bugaboo of morbid origin will scandalize your piety no more.
From Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature by William James
