'Scandalous' definitions:
Definition of 'scandalous'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Giving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to reputation; "scandalous behavior"; "the wicked rascally shameful conduct of the bankrupt"- Thackeray; "the most shocking book of its time" [syn: disgraceful, scandalous, shameful, shocking]
Definition of 'Scandalous'
From: GCIDE
- Scandalous \Scan"dal*ous\, a. [Cf. F. scandaleux.]
- 1. Giving offense to the conscience or moral feelings; exciting reprobation; calling out condemnation. [1913 Webster]
- Nothing scandalous or offensive unto any. --Hooker. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Disgraceful to reputation; bringing shame or infamy; opprobrious; as, a scandalous crime or vice. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Defamatory; libelous; as, a scandalous story. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'scandalous'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- aberrant,
- abnormal,
- abominable,
- abusive,
- arrant,
- atrocious,
- awful,
- back-biting,
- backbiting,
- bad,
- base,
- beastly,
- belittling,
- beneath contempt,
- beneath one,
- bitchy,
- black,
- blamable,
- blameworthy,
- brutal,
- calumniatory,
- calumnious,
- catty,
- censorious,
- cheap,
- contemptible,
- contemptuous,
- contumelious,
- criminal,
- crying,
- damnable,
- dark,
- debasing,
- defamatory,
- degrading,
- delinquent,
- demeaning,
- deplorable,
- deprecatory,
- depreciative,
- depreciatory,
- derisive,
- derisory,
- derogative,
- derogatory,
- desperate,
- despicable,
- detestable,
- detracting,
- detractory,
- deviant,
- dire,
- disgraceful,
- disgusting,
- dishonorable,
- disparaging,
- disreputable,
- dreadful,
- egregious,
- enormous,
- evil,
- execrable,
- fetid,
- filthy,
- flagitious,
- flagrant,
- foul,
- fulsome,
- grievous,
- gross,
- gutter,
- hardly the thing,
- hateful,
- heinous,
- horrible,
- horrid,
- humiliating,
- humiliative,
- ignominious,
- illegal,
- immodest,
- immoral,
- improper,
- inappropriate,
- incorrect,
- indecent,
- indecorous,
- infamous,
- infra dig,
- infra indignitatem,
- iniquitous,
- injurious,
- knavish,
- lamentable,
- lascivious,
- lecherous,
- lewd,
- libelous,
- licentious,
- loathsome,
- lousy,
- low,
- lustful,
- maligning,
- minimizing,
- monstrous,
- nasty,
- naughty,
- nefarious,
- noisome,
- not done,
- not the thing,
- notorious,
- obnoxious,
- odious,
- off-base,
- off-color,
- offensive,
- opprobrious,
- out-of-line,
- outrageous,
- peccant,
- pejorative,
- pitiable,
- pitiful,
- profligate,
- rank,
- regrettable,
- reprehensible,
- reprobate,
- repulsive,
- ridiculing,
- rotten,
- sacrilegious,
- sad,
- schlock,
- scurrile,
- scurrilous,
- scurvy,
- shabby,
- shameful,
- shameless,
- shocking,
- shoddy,
- sinful,
- slanderous,
- slighting,
- sordid,
- sorry,
- squalid,
- taboo,
- terrible,
- too bad,
- unbecoming,
- unclean,
- undue,
- unfit,
- unfitting,
- unforgivable,
- unlawful,
- unmentionable,
- unpardonable,
- unrighteous,
- unseemly,
- unspeakable,
- unsuitable,
- unworthy,
- unworthy of one,
- vicious,
- vile,
- vilifying,
- villainous,
- wicked,
- woeful,
- worst,
- worthless,
- wretched,
- wrong,
- wrongful