SCANDALOUS in a Sentence
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169 example sentences for SCANDALOUS, such as:
1. The sexual scandals dirtied the president.
2. The government was rocked by a series of scandals.
3. The journalist was probing into several financial scandals.
4. The project was denounced as a scandalous waste of public money.
5. A series of corruption scandals led to the fall of the government.
2. The government was rocked by a series of scandals.
3. The journalist was probing into several financial scandals.
4. The project was denounced as a scandalous waste of public money.
5. A series of corruption scandals led to the fall of the government.
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Meanings and Examples of SCANDALOUS
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scandalous
a. giving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to reputation
Classic Sentence: (104 in 7 pages)
1 A most scandalous, ill-natured rumour has just reached me, and I write, dear Fanny, to warn you against giving the least credit to it, should it spread into the country.
2 As no scandalous, ill-natured rumour had reached her, it was impossible for her to understand much of this strange letter.
3 If I would not go for the sake of your father, I should think it scandalous to go for the sake of his heir.
4 The County Constabulary is in a scandalous state, sir, and it has not afforded me the protection to which I am entitled.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In Chapter 11. The Man on the Tor
Context Highlight In Chapter 11. The Man on the Tor
5 Father Arnall gave out the theme-books and he said that they were scandalous and that they were all to be written out again with the corrections at once.
6 Mr. O'Madden Burke said it was the most scandalous exhibition he had ever witnessed.
7 The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous.
8 It was a burning shame and a scandalous disgrace to act in that way.
9 In relating these and the following laws, I would only be understood to mean the original institutions, and not the most scandalous corruptions, into which these people are fallen by the degenerate nature of man.
10 A cold qualm of guilt assailed Scarlett at the thought of Ellen's consternation, should she ever learn of her daughter's scandalous conduct.
11 The three Marys were the heroines of a cycle of scandalous stories, which the old men were fond of relating as they sat about the cigar-stand in the drugstore.
12 The thing made a big stir in the town, too, and a good many come out flatfooted and said it was scandalous to separate the mother and the children that way.
13 An affair of a most scandalous character has taken place in our midst.
14 "They say that Monsieur de Buckingham is in France," replied Aramis, with a significant smile which gave to this sentence, apparently so simple, a tolerably scandalous meaning.
15 There had already been minor scandals about those holding government contracts.
Example Sentence: (65 in 5 pages)
1 The scandalous remarks in the newspaper besmirch the reputations of every member of the society.
2 It was scandalous to separate the mother and the children that way.
3 She insisted that every scandalous detail of the story had been manufactured.
4 The project was denounced as a scandalous waste of public money.
5 Flaws in the system have created a breeding ground for financial scandals.
6 The journalist was probing into several financial scandals.
7 These scandals will not enhance the organization's reputation/image.
8 By this time a series of scandals had severely tarnished the leader's image/reputation.
9 Doctors have suffered a loss of prestige following a spate of scandals.
10 The government was rocked by a series of scandals.
11 A series of corruption scandals led to the fall of the government.
12 Political sex scandals are all grist to the mill of the tabloid newspapers.
13 The sexual scandals dirtied the president.
14 Before the Wall Street scandals, dealers managed to aggregate great wealth in short periods of time.
15 After a series of drug scandals, this was Major League Baseball's chance to demonstrate its determination to crack down on the cheats.