scandalize

It is a risky undertaking—one that will probably scandalize the purists—but it is also a profoundly literary one.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026

These events scandalize, yet “The Girl With the Needle” is most intriguing when it lingers in its disturbing fictions, which come to life with exceptional style.

From New York Times ● Dec. 5, 2024

Their love story is the focus of “Bridgerton’s” first season, as narrated by Lady Whistledown, the anonymous author whose gossip columns scandalize 19th-century British high society.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 9, 2021

So when these powerful figures scandalize us, we lose our faith in our social world, or in our capacity to govern it.

From Slate ● Aug. 26, 2020

“You know I cain’t go, Hoyt. It would scandalize the town.”

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns

An expression should never be banned for just being extremely offensive, regardless of whether it scandalizes a religious or any other type of cherished concept.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 19, 2022

Instead of treating them like the NFL’s beneficent owner-demigods, responsible for the league’s and players’ fortunes, college football instead ignores, scandalizes, and criminalizes any serious valuation of its athletes.

From Slate ● Dec. 1, 2020

Equally noteworthy are Georgia's "My Happy Family," a fine naturalistic examination of a 50-something woman whose desire to live alone scandalizes her patriarchal culture.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 19, 2017

Next year she will do another movie for John Huston, an adaptation of a British novel called Miss Hargreaves, in which she plays a 70-year-old woman who scandalizes a cathedral town.

From Time Magazine Archive

There are many others like them in Saguntum, and that is why the magistrates dare not punish that Grecian woman, who with her mad extravagances scandalizes the city.

From Sónnica by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

Vaughters spoke from experience: He’s a former member of Lance Armstrong’s scandalized U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026

Because for as many people as Byrd tantalized during her legendary cable run through the ’80s and ’90s, there were just as many who were outraged and scandalized by her sex-positive, queer-inclusive values.

From Salon ● Jul. 10, 2026

They reportedly scandalized their neighbors with loud music and trash piles and performed the dances that dominated the app ironically rather than earnestly.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026

Noem, whose husband was in the hearing room on Wednesday, acted scandalized by Kamlager-Dove’s inquiry.

From Slate ● Mar. 5, 2026

She saw that John was scandalized at the way she had grown up on the island, running free as the wind in a world filled with sunshine.

From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare

"Just don't talk about it" was a solution to something uncomfortable or something that other people would find scandalizing.

From Salon ● Jun. 26, 2022

One narrative was that Brooks was scandalizing the idea of “real” country music because he incorporated rock music into tracks like “Papa Loved Mama” and covered Aerosmith.

From Washington Post ● May 11, 2021

There’s no record of whether Bart actually put on the robe and ascot, but he and Liberty hit it off immediately and had puppies together, scandalizing upper-crust pet society.

From Slate ● Jan. 31, 2021

The neat, versatile, circular crew neckline—with none of this sad baggage—is simply the less scandalizing option.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2018

"I believe the very notion of scandalizing her will be what will decide me," concluded his mother with finality.

From Walter and the Wireless by William F. (William Frederick) Stecher