SCANDALOUS in a Sentence

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As no scandalous, ill-natured rumour had reached her, it was impossible for her to understand much of this strange letter.

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 Meanings and Examples of SCANDALOUS
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
scandalous
 a.  giving offense to the conscience or moral feelings; exciting reprobation; calling out condemnation
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.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVI
2  As no scandalous, ill-natured rumour had reached her, it was impossible for her to understand much of this strange letter.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVI
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.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 22
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
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.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
6  Mr. O'Madden Burke said it was the most scandalous exhibition he had ever witnessed.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In A MOTHER
7  The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous.
The Importance of Being Earnest By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In FIRST ACT
8  It was a burning shame and a scandalous disgrace to act in that way.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
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.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VI.
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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
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.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: IX
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.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII.
13  An affair of a most scandalous character has taken place in our midst.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV
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.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 2 THE ANTECHAMBER OF M. DE TREVILLE
15  There had already been minor scandals about those holding government contracts.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
Example Sentence: (65 in 5 pages)
16  This was revoked after the scandals of the clean hands bribery scandal which caused a political earthquake at the time in a country where it had become the norm for businessmen to bribe politicians, but now it is back to square one.
17  Little has changed, corruption scandals abound and inequality persists, even as Kenya grows richer.
18  In the past, companies with sloppy approaches have been able to count on their customers' lack of interest in cybersecurity which has dwindled over the years despite a succession of hacking scandals.
19  His administration was plagued by one petty scandal after another, cumulatively very damaging.
20  The administration was tainted with scandal.
21  The scandal has been discussed by the politburo, although the authorities have tried to hush it up.
22  In scandal, as in robbery,the receiver is always thought as bad as the thief.
23  The affair was the most sensational political sex scandal of the century.
24  A financial scandal would shake the Institute's standing in the international academic community.
25  Some magazines contain nothing but scandal and gossip.
26  The scandal has shaken the Democratic Party to its foundations.
27  After the recent scandal, he faces an uphill struggle to win back public support before the next election.
28  He was obliged to resign when one of his own aides was implicated in a financial scandal.
29  His reputation was permanently tainted by the financial scandal.
30  This scandal could prove seriously damaging to the government.