scandalously

Example Sentences

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Is there an L.A. neighborhood that doesn’t have scandalously cracked, sunken and uplifted sidewalks?

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 17, 2024

In the past, private equity business tactics have been linked to scandalously bad care at some dental clinics that treated children from low-income families.

From Salon • Dec. 1, 2022

Risks: Burning bunker fuel and emitting huge amounts of greenhouse gases, discharging waste in port communities, interfering with marine life, scandalously low worker wages and tax evasion via “flags of convenience.”

From Seattle Times • Jul. 23, 2021

The famous “flappers” of the 1920s, young women in the latest fashion who danced to cutting-edge American jazz and wore scandalously short, knee-length dresses, were the ultimate expression of the New Woman.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020

This is still scandalously high, higher in fact than my aftertax weekly pay will amount to.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich