Meaning

(rare, uncountable) The quality of being scandalous..

Definitions by Sense

1. (rare, uncountable) The quality of being scandalous.
2. (rare, countable) Something scandalous.

Example Sentences

Miss Somebody, who also sings, got greenly jealous, and as she couldn’t rap Fay’s voice she knocked her face; and one can swing a hammer there with cruel scandalosity.

Our sports are far from — how you say? — scandalosity?

And though we may concede that "Axolotl" is a narrative whose outrageous scandalosity to our everyday world is surely beyond dispute, we must also acknowledge that it has rules of its own:[…]

I expanded my Dishing the Dirt to my night show where celebrities would frequent the studio for interviews and I developed my style of high drama and scandalosity.

Rating the scandals[…]Let’s create a Scandalosity Rating System, with units everyone understands.

“What a scandalosity!” for an outraged sense of decorum prevailed over his use of sane English.

“What a scandalosity!” he exclaimed a moment later, as he met Miss Bailey in the wings. “You ought to be ashamed of myself!”

Still, when a miners’ agent lays himself out to consider the scandalosities of life, it isn’t for mere newspaper folk to offer a word on the subject.

Word Forms

• scandalosities

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Use scandalosity when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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