scandalize
verb
scan·dal·ize
ˈskan-də-ˌlīz 
scandalized; scandalizing
1
: to offend the moral sense of : shock
She was scandalized by his behavior.
2
archaic
: to speak falsely or maliciously of
3
archaic
: to bring into reproach
Examples of scandalize in a Sentence
She was scandalized by her son's behavior.
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Online, scandalized viewers torched the appearance.
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Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 9 Sep. 2024
Elsa’s father, Ferdinando, was as rich as Croesus but, scandalized by his daughter turning her back on the family’s prim, conservative ways, left her to make a living for herself.
—Hamish Bowles, Vogue, 5 Aug. 2024
Back home after leaving school, Bamber had grown cannabis behind the cattle shed and scandalized the family by carrying on an affair with a married mother of three.
—Heidi Blake, The New Yorker, 29 July 2024
But Damascus has scandalized every Potemkin effort at reform or negotiation.
—Michael Weiss, Foreign Affairs, 6 Jan. 2012
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Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 9 Sep. 2024
Elsa’s father, Ferdinando, was as rich as Croesus but, scandalized by his daughter turning her back on the family’s prim, conservative ways, left her to make a living for herself.
—Hamish Bowles, Vogue, 5 Aug. 2024
Back home after leaving school, Bamber had grown cannabis behind the cattle shed and scandalized the family by carrying on an affair with a married mother of three.
—Heidi Blake, The New Yorker, 29 July 2024
But Damascus has scandalized every Potemkin effort at reform or negotiation.
—Michael Weiss, Foreign Affairs, 6 Jan. 2012
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scandalize
verb
scan·dal·ize
ˈskan-də-ˌlīz
scandalized; scandalizing
1
archaic
: to speak of in a false or vicious way
2
: to shock the moral sense of
their actions scandalized the neighbors
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