Crossword clues for scandalous
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Scandalous \Scan"dal*ous\, a. [Cf. F. scandaleux.]
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Giving offense to the conscience or moral feelings; exciting reprobation; calling out condemnation.
Nothing scandalous or offensive unto any.
--Hooker. Disgraceful to reputation; bringing shame or infamy; opprobrious; as, a scandalous crime or vice.
Defamatory; libelous; as, a scandalous story.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 15c., from French scandaleux, from Medieval Latin scandalosus "scandalous," from Church Latin scandalum (see scandal). Related: Scandalously.
Wiktionary
a. 1 wrong, immoral, causing a scandal 2 malicious, defamatory
WordNet
adj. giving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to reputation; "scandalous behavior"; "the wicked rascally shameful conduct of the bankrupt"- Thackeray; "the most shocking book of its time" [syn: disgraceful, shameful, shocking]
Wikipedia
"Scandalous" is a song by British R&B/ UK garage girl group Mis-Teeq. It was written by band members Su-Elise Nash, Alesha Dixon, and Sabrina Washington along with frequent collaborators Rustan Hallgeir, Tor Erik Hermansen, and Mikkel Eriksen for their second studio album, Eye Candy (2003), with production handled by the latter two. First released in 2003, the up-tempo R&B song became a hit throughout Europe and Oceania, reaching the top ten in Australia, Denmark, Ireland, New Zealand, and in the United Kingdom. "Scandalous" has sold 195,000 copies in the UK, becoming the group's biggest-selling single.
In 2004, "Scandalous" was chosen as Mis-Teeq's debut single in the United States, where it reached number 35 on the Billboard Hot 100 and was featured as the theme of the film Catwoman, starring Halle Berry. This track also features in the 2013 video game Grand Theft Auto V, on the fictional radio station "Non Stop Pop FM".
Scandalous may refer to:
Scandalous is the fourth album by British soul/dance group Imagination, produced by Steve Jolley and Tony Swain and released in 1983. In US the album was issued under title New Dimension.
Scandalous failed to repeat the success of Imagination's previous albums, stalling at No. 25 in the United Kingdom and not producing a top 20 single. It marked the start of a decline in the group's commercial fortunes; subsequent albums were even less successful.
Scandalous is a 1984 British- American comedy film directed by Rob Cohen and starring Robert Hays, John Gielgud and Pamela Stephenson.
Usage examples of "scandalous".
University Chapel, she was attired in a scandalous Bloomer outfit, on her hands and knees in a barren, slate-floored room, chalking diagrams she had a notion her old minister would have considered blasphemous on the floor.
I have only appeared at two theatres, and each time I have been compelled to submit to the scandalous, degrading examination, because everywhere I am thought to have too much the appearance of a girl, and I am admitted only after the shameful test has brought conviction.
Scandalous, it is true, but not calling for the condign punishments of a misprision or of an assassination.
He was about to pursue her, to finish that conversation to his own satisfaction, when he saw the Relict Tor Bezaemar with the original of that scandalous painting, a statuesque woman whose iridescent lace overdress was pinned back to her shoulders.
Westminster, and preventing scandalous monopolies of a few engrossing fishmongers, who imposed exorbitant prices on their fish, and, in this particular branch of traffic, gave law to above six hundred thousand of their fellow-citizens.
I always view the affairs of your Lordship, and my obligations, constrain me to represent affectionately to your Lordship, on the present occasion, the great danger that is being incurred in maintaining the provisor in his office, in hatred of him who represents to us the royal person, so that your Lordship may consider in time the scandalous end that is threatened.
Agnes reports that her aunt Trinkle claims that Lord and Lady Treyhern once had something of a scandalous past.
It would serve this lady right, Maisie gathered, if that contract, in the shape of an overgrown and underdressed daughter, should be shipped straight out to her and landed at her feet in the midst of scandalous excesses.
Nothing could be more scandalous, arrogant, and shamefully flagrant, than the conduct and deportment of those who acted the part of understrappers to the ministry on this occasion.
At the moment when she comes into our story she was weaving her toils round a certain Duc de Vitry, whom she had seen at court, but whose acquaintance she had never made, and who had been absent when the scandalous occurrence which led to her disgrace came to light.
When it came to relations between the sexes, Arkansan youth behaved in a manner that was quite scandalous by American standards, especially those of New England.
She had stood for the last fitting of the flamboyant gown only a week ago and it had fit perfectly with a decolletage that was positively scandalous.
I entirely agree with you, that the abolition of agistment tithe in Ireland by a vote of the Irish House of Commons, and without any remuneration to the Church, was a most scandalous and Jacobinical measure.
Finally she had gotten Seria to agree to let her design one and this was the scandalous result.
Dodge pulled out of the parking lot, Brooke locked up shop and grabbed an armful of the sexiest, most scandalous lingerie she could find in the shop to try on upstairs.