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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

... fain to whistle before the Dogs will fetch and carry, and then too they approach by stealth: and having done the Drudgery, the submissive Curs are turn'd out for fear of dirtying your Apartment, or that the Mungrils should scandalize ye; whilst all my Lovers of the noble kind throng to adore and fill my Presence daily, gay as if ...

— The Works of Aphra Behn, Vol. I (of 6) • Aphra Behn

... delicate point. People have come to see me and have made some very judicious remarks to me. The mere announcement of your project has cast a good deal of trouble into certain consciences. They fear that the success of an undertaking of this kind may strike a blow at the faith, may, in a word, scandalize many tranquil spirits. For, if M. Fougas is dead, of course it is because God has so willed it. Aren't you afraid of acting contrary to the will of God, ...

— The Man With The Broken Ear • Edmond About

... have arisen among some of you as I announced my pathological programme. At any rate you must all be ready now to judge the religious life by its results exclusively, and I shall assume that the bugaboo of morbid origin will scandalize your piety ...

— The Varieties of Religious Experience • William James

... before we burn them?" And they finally decided that they ought to do so, and I will tell you the reason they gave: They said if they were not cut out that while they were being burned, they might, by their heresies, scandalize the gentleman who would bring the wood; they were too good to hear these things and they might be injured; and the same idea appears to prevail in this world now that they are too good and they ...

— Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll - Latest • Robert Green Ingersoll

... observed. "This fascinating heroine must have caused a great deal of real sorrow, or at least she would have caused it, were it not that her creator had considerably removed all relatives, except a devoted couple of unorthodox parents, who are charmed at her decision to scandalize society, and wonder why she doesn't do it sooner. Parents like that don't ...

— The Daughters of Danaus • Mona Caird

... 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

Words linked to "Scandalize" : nauseate, outrage, appall, shock, sicken, churn up, scandalise, appal, offend, scandalization, scandal, disgust, revolt