scandalize

Example Sentences

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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

Such a procedure should not scandalize anyone in our time.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 7, 2019

But unlike the prime-time soaps of yore, “UnReal” and “Being Mary Jane” use these extreme stories to illuminate real ideas, rather than just to scandalize or titillate.

From New York Times • Apr. 29, 2016

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