scandalous

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  1. adjective Causing scandal; shocking: scandalous behavior.
  2. adjective Containing material damaging to reputation; defamatory: a scandalous exposé.

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  • But perhaps what makes Howard's claim of being a climate change realist so scandalous is his belligerent refusal to treat the issue realistically. —  newmatilda.com - Comments
  • "Diary of a Chambermaid" (1964; 10 p.m. Saturday), an adaptation of Octave Mirbeau's novel - filmed once before by Jean Renoir, during his American period, in 1946 - suggests in its title the scandalous, but is in fact one of the director's more straightforward works, a period exposé of political and social mores, with Jeanne Moreau as the titular servant. —  Berks county news
  • The exclusion of Hamas is scandalous, a clear violation of Palestinian national law and democratic principles, the mechanism of political representation in an organization, authority or government. —  Palestine Blogs aggregator
  • The latest example (Daschle, a mere potential appointee) of why any media coverage of scandals, even when the scandalous are Democrats (and even when they directly implicate the President himself - see picture as reminder), always hurts conservatives. —  race42008.com
  • Will anyone be held to account for another scandalous waste of money? —  Slugger O'Toole
 

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  1. from Old French (and F.) scandaleux = Spanish Portuguese escandaloso = Italian scandaloso, from Middle Latin scandalosus, scandalous, from Late Latin scandalum, scandal: see scandal.
 

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