SCANDALIZE Synonyms: 80 Similar and Opposite Words

scandalize

verb

Definition of scandalize

as in to offend

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Recent Examples of scandalize His immigration policy aims to scandalize a broad class of voting citizens by demonizing the non-citizen minority. — Ben Bayer, Oc Register, 16 Feb. 2026 Its jarring vision of family and class scandalized many and vaulted Bellocchio into the forefront of his country’s cinema. — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 15 Feb. 2026 Refreshingly, Michelle didn’t seem all that impressed or scandalized by my position at the Kinsey Institute. — Dr. Justin R. Garcia, PEOPLE, 28 Jan. 2026 As Alexandra Plakias has noted, philosophical about-faces should not scandalize us; they should be honored. — Shai Tubali, Big Think, 30 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for scandalize

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This will cause Defender to hang and keep a lock on the offending files that holds the entire disk space.

— Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 9 July 2026
The murder rate usually rises and falls alongside other crimes, so through the 2010s, with property crime and overall youth offending dropping, criminologists expected the murder trend to follow suit.

— James Tuttle, The Conversation, 9 July 2026

Definition of offend

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Bad Bunny clearly saw something that displeased him on center court.

— Alex Apatoff, PEOPLE, 1 July 2026
Some customers on social media are understandably displeased by the news, with users on sites like Reddit promoting physical copies as the best way to permanently own media.

— Will McCurdy, PC Magazine, 27 June 2026

Definition of displease

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Baldwin included photos of herself looking nauseated, as well as pictures of her in the bathroom doing what appeared to be praying.

— Hannah Sacks, PEOPLE, 4 June 2026
Rebecca Sherman Weatherford, Texas As viewed by this lawyer in Missouri, what Keefe (no relation) describes is nauseating.

— The New Yorker, New Yorker, 4 May 2026

Definition of nauseate

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Oshea Orchid, a local lawyer, filed the first class-action lawsuit in 2023 against the operators of the county’s second-largest landfill, alleging the fumes were sickening her neighbors, causing headaches and heart palpitations.

— Rebecca Ellis, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2026
An outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease has sickened 54 people on New York City’s Upper East Side, prompting widespread testing of building cooling towers in the area — including at the world-famous Guggenheim museum.

— Aria Bendix, NBC news, 11 July 2026

Definition of sicken

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Fireworks can frighten animals and send them scattering, but Jackie and Shadow’s eaglets apparently are made of sterner stuff.

— Sandra McDonald, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2026
In those moments, what frightened her most was not her own safety but the knowledge that her husband was up there somewhere, flying in the same sky swarming with fighter planes dropping their bombs on Tehran.

— Mahsa Alimardani, Time, 6 July 2026

Definition of frighten

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In 2010, four years after reaching the final for the second time in three World Cups, the players revolted against coach Raymond Domenech during the tournament.

— Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2026
In 2013, Microsoft proposed similar restrictions for the original Xbox One, and Sony publicly committing to keep discs while Xbox users revolted.

— Mia Osmonbekov, Fortune, 9 July 2026

Definition of revolt

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Just before halftime, van Persie slipped past the Spanish defensive line to receive a long-range pass from teammate Daley Blind and looped the ball over Spanish goalkeeper Iker Casillas with a first-time diving header that amazed the audience.

— Tushaar Kuthiala, Encyclopedia Britannica, 15 July 2026
For the majority of viewers who held out for the subscription streaming release rather than paying to rent or purchase, this news is amaze, amaze, amaze.

— Hannah Abraham, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026

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