scandalized

past tense of scandalize

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for scandalized
Verb
  • However, Italy released him on a technicality, after which he was expelled to Libya, which outraged human rights groups and prompted the ICC to open an inquiry into why Italy released him instead of sending him to The Hague.
    ABC News, ABC News, 22 June 2026
  • So why isn't the media outraged about it?
    Ian Miller OutKick, FOXNews.com, 22 June 2026
Verb
  • At intervals John would shamble around the stage in a cruel parody of a disabled person, which in those days offended no one.
    Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 18 June 2026
  • Lu also apologized to those who were offended in the video.
    Rebecca Cohen, NBC news, 18 June 2026
Verb
  • Kim The call left Kim Grindell disgusted, furious and wracked with guilt.
    Rich Schapiro, NBC news, 20 June 2026
  • Many of the crew members are disgusted by Vito's homosexuality, but Phil seems to take special exception to this revelation, going out of his way to demand Tony take him out and becoming violently angered even at the mere mention of Vito's name.
    Austin Perry OutKick, FOXNews.com, 10 June 2026
Verb
  • Many of Furgeson’s subjects were displeased by his haughty musings, which would seem less out of place if he was garbed in a royal mantle and wielding a golden scepter.
    Frank Landymore, Futurism, 4 June 2026
  • Bromley, displeased, asked for a show of hands from anyone who believed that this was the most interesting story Jamie had to tell about himself.
    Jonathan Franzen, New Yorker, 1 June 2026
Verb
  • In 1839, 53 captive Mende people taken from Sierra Leone revolted aboard the Spanish ship La Amistad, diverting the ship from its original destination of Cuba toward the Northeast.
    Calista Oetama, Hartford Courant, 22 June 2026
  • The players revolted, boycotting training over Anelka’s treatment.
    Tim Spiers, New York Times, 3 June 2026
Verb
  • When Alexander Graham Bell demonstrated the telephone at America’s Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia in 1876, the invention amazed the crowd.
    David H. Hsu, Fortune, 11 May 2026
  • I'mPhaedra Trethan, amazed at these quick-thinking kids.
    Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 29 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • The disease has sickened humans for thousands of years and wiped out a significant chunk of Europe's population in the 14th century during what's known as the Black Death.
    ABC News, ABC News, 17 June 2026
  • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are disproportionately affected, sickened at a seven times higher rate than non-Indigenous Australians, the announcement said.
    Cara Lynn Shultz, PEOPLE, 16 June 2026
Verb
  • The political left also occasionally makes its voice heard at Cannes via climate protesters horrified by the destructive environmental impact of some major companies that spend big dollars to improve their image (and set up shop for the week along the Croisette).
    Max Tani, semafor.com, 22 June 2026
  • He was flummoxed, then horrified.
    Amanda Petrusich, New Yorker, 22 June 2026
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