Example Sentences

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"If your Lordship should consider that these observations may disgust or scandalise the learned, I earnestly beg your Lordship to regard them as private and to publish or destroy them as your Lordship sees fit."

From Salon • Jan. 2, 2023

"If your Lordship should consider that these observations may disgust or scandalise the learned, I earnestly beg your Lordship to regard them as private and to publish or destroy them as your Lordship sees fit."

From Salon • Jan. 2, 2023

Whereas if you’re the kind of convention-flouter willing to scandalise elderly family members by cohabiting, you’ll surely also be more willing to contemplate divorce.

From The Guardian • Nov. 16, 2018

Many of the gags will scandalise even the most open-minded audience but for those who can cope with the onslaught it's a cathartic and hilarious experience.

From The Guardian • Dec. 15, 2012

Even in the middle of the fifteenth century, and in Spain, could be found an assertor, in some degree, of common sense, whose sentiments might scandalise some Protestant divines.

From The Superstitions of Witchcraft by Williams, Howard