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
Lawyers for the Fyssas family called the ruling "scandalous".
From BBC • Mar. 4, 2026
He launched a similar inquiry into Kellogg’s, suggesting it had deceptively marketed its cereals, as if it were some scandalous secret that Froot Loops contain food coloring.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 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
Leah told supporters that she and her sisters would never follow such scandalous directions, no matter what their spirit friends wished.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
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