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synonyms for scandalous

  • defamatory
  • disgraceful
  • heinous
  • outrageous
  • scurrilous
  • shameful
  • shocking
  • slanderous
  • unseemly
  • untrue
  • atrocious
  • backbiting
  • calumnious
  • crying
  • desperate
  • detracting
  • detractive
  • gossiping
  • ignominious
  • infamous
  • libelous
  • maligning
  • monstrous
  • odious
  • opprobrious
  • red hot
  • traducing
  • vilifying
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On this page you'll find 80 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to scandalous, such as: defamatory, disgraceful, heinous, outrageous, scurrilous, and shameful.

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  • good
  • magnificent
  • respectable
  • wonderful
  • proper
  • reputable
  • respected
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How to use scandalous in a sentence

For Rohit, foregoing a lucrative career to introduce a martial art based on teachings of a scandalous godman in a town where sex is a taboo is quite daring.
A NEW MARTIAL ART KEEPS CULT LEADER’S TEACHINGS ALIVEDANIEL MALLOYDECEMBER 18, 2020OZY
Thus for Rohit, foregoing a lucrative career to introduce a martial art based on teachings of a scandalous godman in a town where sex is a taboo is quite daring.
A NEW MARTIAL ART KEEPS CULT LEADER’S TEACHINGS ALIVEDANIEL MALLOYDECEMBER 18, 2020OZY
It’s weird but since his departure, it seems everyone is looking for some scandalous thing to have happened there.
FORMER AVALON SINGER ON COMING OUT, GETTING OUSTED AND WHERE HE IS TODAYJOEY DIGUGLIELMOOCTOBER 20, 2020WASHINGTON BLADE
Virginity for young women was highly prized, so it was moving out before marriage that was scandalous, not staying home where they could be shielded from young men.
YES, MORE AND MORE YOUNG ADULTS ARE LIVING WITH THEIR PARENTS – BUT IS THAT NECESSARILY BAD?LGBTQ-EDITOROCTOBER 17, 2020NO STRAIGHT NEWS
It’s scandalous and absurd these agencies refuse to give correct guidance.
THIS SCIENTIST MADE A GOOGLE DOC TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC ABOUT AIRBORNE CORONAVIRUS TRANSMISSIONNIALL FIRTHOCTOBER 2, 2020MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW
I remember, however, the contempt and disgust which awoke in me at the sight of this scandalous chaperoning.
CAMILLE (LA DAME AUX CAMILIAS)ALEXANDRE DUMAS, FILS
If another person attempts to open a conversation upon scandalous matters, check her.
THE LADIES' BOOK OF ETIQUETTE, AND MANUAL OF POLITENESSFLORENCE HARTLEY
As to the "opportunities," Chloe coolly confessed to herself that she had made rather a scandalous use of them.
MARRIAGE LA MODEMRS. HUMPHRY WARD
De Gery had made a long detailed memorandum of these scandalous abuses, with proofs in support of it.
THE NABOBALPHONSE DAUDET
They have gone to the adulterous rendezvous celebrated in the scandalous verses of Lorenzo the Magnificent.
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WORDS RELATED TO SCANDALOUS

  • awful
  • bad
  • barbaric
  • beastly
  • desperate
  • diabolical
  • fiendish
  • flagrant
  • godawful
  • grody
  • gross
  • hairy
  • heinous
  • lousy
  • monstrous
  • nefarious
  • rotten
  • scandalous
  • shocking
  • villainous
  • wicked
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