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Scandalize v. t. (past & past part. scandalized; pres. part. scandalizing)

To offend the feelings or the conscience of (a person) by some action which is considered immoral or criminal; to bring shame, disgrace, or reproach upon. "I demand who they are whom we scandalize by using harmless things." "The congregation looked on in silence, the better class scandalized, and the lower orders, some laughing, others backing the soldier or the minister, as their fancy dictated."

To reproach; to libel; to defame; to slander. "To tell his tale might be interpreted into scandalizing the order."

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Etymology of 'Scandalize'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Scandalize" Quotes from Famous Books

... too good for a nut like Brother Anthony, and we'll sit on a bench in the mission garden in the shade of the largest bougainvillea in the world and tuck away the wine. Between tucks, Father Dominic will inquire casually into the state of my soul, and the information thus elicited will scandalize the old saint. The only way I can square myself is to go into the chapel with them and give thanks for my escape from ...

— The Pride of Palomar • Peter B. Kyne

... doesn't come again," replied the girl, with a smile, "I'll scandalize the dear old man nearly to death by going and calling ...

— White Ashes • Sidney R. Kennedy and Alden C. Noble

... mix the cocktails yourself and scandalize everybody. You know perfectly well Barboy really does do ...

— The Real Hard Sell • William W Stuart

... great siege, the incidents might shame the wildest fancies of romance—how intrigue swayed with intrigue there, struggling hilt to hilt; how plot and plot were thwarted by the counterplot; how all trust in man was destroyed in that dark year that Arnold died, and a fiend took his fair shape to scandalize two hemispheres! ...

— The Reckoning • Robert W. Chambers

... great affection for the "little brothers,'' as the Bulgarians were then commonly called, and he was constrained to admit that the Turks were by no means so black as they had been painted. He did not, however, scandalize the believers by any public expression of his opinions, and did not indeed make himself conspicuous in any way during the campaign. Never consulted on political questions, he confined himself to his military duties and fulfilled them in a conscientious and unobtrusive manner. ...

— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia

Words linked to "Scandalize" : offend, churn up, appal, scandalise, outrage, nauseate