scandalized

past tense of scandalize

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for scandalized
Verb
  • Rocha responded the next day with a video statement on the Miss Universe social media accounts, saying he was outraged by the treatment of Bosch.
    Sarah Moreno, Miami Herald, 5 Nov. 2025
  • The thought that a cannabis retail store could one day open near his youth hockey training center in Stillwater has outraged LumberYard Hockey and Sports Center co-owner Lee Erickson.
    Mary Divine, Twin Cities, 26 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Whoever is 77th will be sure to be offended.
    Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 5 Nov. 2025
  • No one around the table can be offended or object to the joke.
    Big Think, Big Think, 5 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • They are hurt and they are harmed by the article, and also they are disgusted by some of the things that were said in the article.
    Anna Skinner, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2025
  • People are disgusted with Israel’s response.
    Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Evidently, the result displeased Kinahan’s syndicate, which seemed to have expected the horse to lose.
    Ed Caesar, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
  • From a religious perspective, King Edward IV passed these laws on the grounds that God was displeased by anything other than modest clothing – for the lower classes, anyway.
    Michael Watson, The Conversation, 20 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Users revolted against the change, citing lost AI friendships and romantic relationships with the earlier iteration of the bot.
    Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Over their many months of incarceration, the Cuban refugees organized and revolted, in some instances breaking out of their detention camps.
    Miriam Pensack, The Dial, 30 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • In 1905, German zoologist Gustav Tornier described a live-bearing toad from Tanzania that amazed scientists of his time.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 6 Nov. 2025
  • This isn’t the first time a dog has amazed the internet with spinal walking.
    Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The ongoing outbreak, which first sickened people in August 2024, has caused illness and death in 18 states, the CDC said on its website.
    McClatchy Media, Sacbee.com, 6 Nov. 2025
  • In total, the outbreak—linked to prepared pasta sold at grocery stores across the country—is known to have sickened 27 people in 18 states.
    ​Wendy Wisner, Parents, 5 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • The people who owned the land were horrified to think of our sleeping outside in the cold.
    Judith Martin, Mercury News, 8 Nov. 2025
  • Bell then takes his own clear straw and puts it in Peck’s mouth, syphoning off coffee as Peck looks horrified.
    Victoria Edel, PEOPLE, 5 Nov. 2025
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“Scandalized.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scandalized. Accessed 20 Nov. 2025.

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