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

Now 64, he was initially passed off as her brother so as not to crack her “virginal feel and glow,” or to scandalize society, Cardinale’s daughter, Claudia Squitieri said.

From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2023

Here’s a way to scandalize your guests at your holiday party: Serve them boxed wine.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 8, 2021

The question is no longer whether the latest revelation will scandalize Jim Bob sitting in a truck stop, but whether or not it's legally substantive evidence to be included in articles of impeachment.

From Salon ● Oct. 18, 2019

I think Jackson got it to scandalize me, since the red velvet cover was decidedly lurid, but it ended up being a very good story.

From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland

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

In his lecture courses at the university, he scandalizes such colleagues as dandruffy Hume Cronyn by suggesting that a sympathetic bedside manner is as important as the study of anatomy.

From Time Magazine Archive

This is what I complain of; and this it is in you which scandalizes me.

From The Spirit of St. Francis de Sales by Jean Pierre Camus

There were people who just saw it as part of the war effort, and there were people who were really, really scandalized.

From Salon ● Feb. 25, 2026

But those who spoke to The Wall Street Journal weren’t scandalized by the show’s existence.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026

Part hobo, part insult comic, part performance artist, Diogenes flaunted his disregard for convention in ways that scandalized the bourgeoisie of Athens and, later, Corinth, after his banishment from Sinope became permanent.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 17, 2025

This is how invisibility operates: Things that scandalized us four months ago fail to penetrate today.

From Slate ● May 21, 2025

“I don’t,” I said, looking scandalized that she’d even suggest it and mortified by the way the other girls were now staring at me.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

It’s easy to adore the star in the mid-to-late 1950s when he’s young and svelte, scandalizing and delighting America with his wiggly hips, popularizing a new sound dubbed rock ‘n’ roll.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 24, 2026

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

Tennis was perhaps never more popular than when McEnroe and Connors were scandalizing the sport’s old guard.

From New York Times ● Aug. 25, 2016

Then I'll leave it to Jane—she may have some remote idea of history—if I'm scandalizing your hero by saying he never set us the extraordinary example you think.

From Sunlight Patch by Credo Fitch Harris