scandalize
Example Sentences
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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
Here’s a way to scandalize your guests at your holiday party: Serve them boxed wine.
From Washington Post • Dec. 8, 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
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
Vocabulary lists containing scandalize
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