scandalous

Example Sentences

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"They're trying to divert attention away from the scandalous state of public affairs," Noemi Kiss, a 28-year-old communications manager, told AFP.

From Barron's • Mar. 15, 2026

Based on the 2020 novel “Box Hill,” “Pillion” is often scandalous, but it also offers classic rom-com warm and fuzzy feelings.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 10, 2026

"I am totally on my own now. This is beyond scandalous and nobody can do anything. I cannot believe what this is all coming to."

From BBC • Feb. 3, 2026

Halfway through “Melania’s” 104-minute running time, it occurred to me that it would feel scandalous if Ratner so much as taped her doing something as human and unguarded as eating a bite of food.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 2, 2026

They had been disgraced by her birth, and this was their chance to erase, once and for all, the last trace of their husband’s scandalous mistake.

From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini