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BNC: 36464 COCA: 22597

scandalize

1 ENTRIES FOUND:
scandalize verb
also British scandalise /ˈskændəˌlaɪz/
scandalizes; scandalized; scandalizing
scandalize
verb
also British scandalise /ˈskændəˌlaɪz/
scandalizes; scandalized; scandalizing
Learner's definition of SCANDALIZE
[+ object]
: to shock or offend (someone) by doing something immoral or illegal(因不道德或非法行为)使震惊,使愤慨
BNC: 36464 COCA: 22597

scandalize

verb

scan·​dal·​ize ˈskan-də-ˌlīz How to pronounce scandalize (audio)
scandalized; scandalizing

transitive verb

1
: to offend the moral sense of : shock
She was scandalized by his behavior.
2
archaic : to speak falsely or maliciously of
3
archaic : to bring into reproach

Example Sentences

She was scandalized by her son's behavior.
Recent Examples on the Web Soon, a shocking — but also questionable — accusation would scandalize the Eastern Seaboard, cast a pall over the U.S. Senate and leave a legendary political career in tatters. James Kirchick, Washington Post, 15 June 2022 Rather than bridging the divide, discussions at school board meetings scandalize children by showing their parents at their worst. The Salt Lake Tribune, 17 Feb. 2022 Here’s a way to scandalize your guests at your holiday party: Serve them boxed wine. Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2021 An entirely new class of rich, entitled teens matriculates in HBO Max's new Gossip Girl, with fresh dramas and storylines engineered to scandalize a 2021 audience. Fawnia Soo Hoo, refinery29.com, 7 July 2021 Simply posing these questions may well scandalize her other officers and may well be anathema in the era of Blue Lives Matter (a movement Brooks does not mention). Patrick Blanchfield, The New Republic, 25 May 2021 While living in Berlin, in order to scandalize Karl and his bourgeois friends, Walser enrolled in a butlers training school and briefly worked for a prominent German baron. Sam Sacks, WSJ, 21 May 2021 Since the beginning of popular music, rock stars have often invoked Satan as a surefire way to scandalize parents and freak out the squares. Halle Kiefer, Vulture, 1 Apr. 2021 Artists and designers have been having their own private cocktail party conversation for as long as there has been a modern fashion industry, together dreaming up elaborate confections to delight, and sometimes scandalize, their collectors. Lola Ogunnaike, Town & Country, 15 Oct. 2020 See More

Word History

First Known Use

1566, in the meaning defined at sense 2

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The first known use of scandalize was in 1566
BNC: 36464 COCA: 22597

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