What is "scandalously"

Usage examples of "scandalously".

She looked so sweetly pretty that I repented having outraged her so scandalously.

To do that, a woman has to be proud of her body, too, because a stola or tunic or chiton of Kos cotton is so sheer that it is scandalously transparent.

Those thin, scandalously draped dresses, one green, the other blue, were silk, not linen or finespun wool.

The two women had developed strong links during their shared time in the underground, and discussed Finlay scandalously behind his back.

Norit was shy, but cried out scandalously until Hati stopped her with her hand across her mouth, laughing, with embarrassed glances toward the nearby houses.

Suzy selected a gauzy skirt and silky jewel-toned blouse, a watermelon pink tank dress that fell open from mid-thigh to calf, stonewashed jeans with stretchy ribbed knit tops, scandalously short skirts, cotton sweaters that clung to her breasts.

In an age when the ecclesiastics had scandalously degenerated from the model of apostolic purity, the most worthless and corrupt were always the most eager to frequent, and disturb, the episcopal assemblies.

Beautiful slave girls, barefoot, bangled, in scandalously brief slave livery, well displaying their considerable charms, collared, hair free, blowing in the wind, vital, walking exhilaratedly, were common on the high bridges of the city, extending between the numerous cylinder towers, whereas free women, sedate, dignified, restricted, in their confining robes of concealment, were discouraged from the use of such bridges.

Beautiful slave girls, barefoot, bangled, in scandalously brief slave livery, well displaying their considerable charms, collared, hair free, blowing in the wind, vital, walking exhileratedly, were common on the high bridges of the city, extending between the numerous cylinder towers, whereas free women, sedate, dignified, restricted, in their confining robes of concealment, were discouraged from the use of such bridges.

At breakfast the next morning (Earth-born Canadian bacon and eggs, scandalously expensive, fresh pineapple, cereal with real cream, cappuccino), Klara made sure to remind me of that fact by ostentatiously paying for it on her own credit.

The publicity posters, building me up as a miracle man, a faith-healer, and little short of a Messiah, proved scandalously effective.

With a firm, steady-eyed impudence, which seemed to hold back the threat of some abominable menace, he would proceed to sell over the counter some object looking obviously and scandalously not worth the money which passed in the transaction: a small cardboard box with apparently nothing inside, for instance, or one of those carefully closed yellow flimsy envelopes, or a soiled volume in paper covers with a promising title.

She had a pink band holding back her cascade of corn-silk hair, and a scandalously tight, low-cut pink bodice, but her full skirt was all of clover leaves—four-leaf clovers individually scissored from green baize, bunched and stitched so close together that the girl looked like a woods nymph emerging from a bank of real clover.

She hadn't worn this particular swimming costume for him as yet and it was scandalously brief.