Scandalous

Quick meaning: Scandalous is an adjective meaning Of a thing: causing or having the nature of a scandal; regarded as so immoral or wrong as to be extremely disgraceful; despicable, shameful.

Meaning

Of a thing: causing or having the nature of a scandal; regarded as so immoral or wrong as to be extremely disgraceful; despicable, shameful.

More Meanings

1. Of a person: delighted by scandal.
2. Of speech or writing: defamatory, malicious.
3. (figurative) Exceeding reasonable limits; outrageous.
4. (law) Of information, a statement, etc.: not pertinent to a matter; irrelevant, and bringing the court into disrepute.
5. Causing offence or trouble.
6. Of a disease or symptom: putrid, rotting.
7. (archaic or obsolete) Of a person: guilty of extremely disgraceful conduct or some misconduct; infamous; also, unfit for their office or position due to misconduct, etc.

Example Sentences

Theſe be the ſcandalous reportes of ſuch, / As loues not mee, and hate my Lord too much.

[S]omthing ſauors / Of Tyrannie, and vvill ignoble make you, / Yea, ſcandalous to the VVorld.

You are the stateliest deer in all the herd— / Beyond his aim—but I am small and scandalous, / And love to hear bad tales of Philip.

The thing made a big stir in the town, too, and a good many come out flat-footed and said it was scandalous to separate the mother and the children that way.

Synonyms for scandalous

Depending on context, synonyms include abject, filthy, base, beggarly, blameworthy, carrion.

Antonyms for scandalous

Common opposites include nonscandalous, unscandalous.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include shameful, disgraceful, immoral, shocking, scandal, infamous.

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