scandalous

"To have jumped through all of those hoops and then have a tribunal award that never gets paid is frankly scandalous," said policy manager Emer Sheehy.

“The same actions carried out clandestinely would seem scandalous, because they are — and the fact they were so blatantly advertised does not make them less corrupt.”

But Keegan felt it was "scandalous" to blame Batty and Asprilla and instead pointed to a number of key players losing form.

Students of history will recall that, about nine months ago, taking money from a foreign energy firm was once deemed scandalous by America’s ruling party.

Defend Our Juries said among those detained were a former government lawyer and a law student, which the group described as "scandalous".