The Collaborative International Dictionary
Scandalize \Scan"dal*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Scandalized; p. pr. & vb. n. Scandalizing.] [F. scandaliser, L. scandalizare, from Gr. skandali`zein.]
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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.
--Hooker.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.
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To reproach; to libel; to defame; to slander.
To tell his tale might be interpreted into scandalizing the order.
--Sir W. Scott.
Wiktionary
Tending to cause a scandal; scandalous. v
(present participle of scandalize English)
Usage examples of "scandalizing".
I have visions of scandalizing all your friends by picking up the wrong fork, or something just as silly.
She was practically engaged to Septimus Banks, she was very proper and grateful for her job in the midst of this crippling depression, and yet she would risk scandalizing her employer by going to a roadside hangout and probable speakeasy with a guy whose last name she didn’t even know?
Venetia, scandalizing kind Lady Denny, “we go on very much better without him.