scandalized

Definition of scandalizednext
past tense of scandalize

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for scandalized
Verb
  • Good, the 37-year-old mother fatally shot by an ICE officer in Minneapolis, has mobilized people who haven't typically been politically involved but are outraged by the shooting, Indivisible co-founder Leah Greenberg said in an interview.
    Julia Ainsley, NBC news, 9 Jan. 2026
  • Black Lives Matter leaders, who hosted the Sunday night vigil, are outraged by what happened.
    Laurie Perez, CBS News, 5 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • But Kelce wasn't offended, The Good Wife alum recalled.
    Mekishana Pierre, Entertainment Weekly, 6 Jan. 2026
  • Kelce, however, wasn’t offended, the Best Medicine star shared.
    Anna Lazarus Caplan, PEOPLE, 6 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • In 2017, the Ig Nobel Prize in Medicine went to a team of English and French researchers who used advanced brain-scanning technology to measure the extent to which some people are disgusted by cheese.
    Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Jan. 2026
  • Anyone who believes that our access to essential medicines should be based on science, not political ideology, should be disgusted by these legal attacks.
    CBS News, CBS News, 11 Dec. 2025
Verb
  • Trump has also extracted settlements from ABC and CBS News in lawsuits over stories that displeased him, and is suing the New York Times and Wall Street Journal.
    David Bauder, Los Angeles Times, 31 Dec. 2025
  • But others outside the organization were displeased.
    Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 19 Dec. 2025
Verb
  • The movie is set against 1936 when Palestinian villages revolted against British colonial rule.
    Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 21 Nov. 2025
  • Mavericks fans, forced to watch their beloved Slovenian point forward foster another city’s championship dreams, have revolted.
    Brady Brickner-Wood, New Yorker, 15 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • The universe amazed me yet again.
    Daisy Dobrijevic, Space.com, 17 Nov. 2025
  • 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
Verb
  • Most of those sickened were not vaccinated, and two children died.
    Caitlin Yilek, CBS News, 5 Jan. 2026
  • Of those sickened this year, 93% were unvaccinated, the agency reports.
    Cara Lynn Shultz, PEOPLE, 29 Dec. 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 12 Jan. 2026.

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