Scandalous

(a.) Giving offense to the conscience or moral feelings; exciting reprobation; calling out condemnation.

(a.) Disgraceful to reputation; bringing shame or infamy; opprobrious; as, a scandalous crime or vice.

(a.) Defamatory; libelous; as, a scandalous story.

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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. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• The house in Yorkshire was associated with the scandalous affair of the lost Moonstone. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• But the factory system gathered up all this infantile toil and made it systematic, conspicuous, and scandalous. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Take down that scandalous red handkerchief, I beg. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• This was at the time of the Great Schism, just before the Council of Constance (1414-1418) gathered to discuss the scandalous disorder of the church. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The petition was declared to be scandalous and vexatious, and the prayer of it refused. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• Bulstrode had been in dread of scandalous disclosures on the part of Raffles. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• For hardly anybody doubted that some scandalous reason or other was at the bottom of Bulstrode's liberality to Lydgate. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Do you want to marry into a family with a scandalous divorce-suit hanging over it? 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• It was a burning shame and a scandalous disgrace to act in that way. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• You know, my dear, you're rather a big responsibility in such a scandalous place after midnight. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• It is perfectly scandalous. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.

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