scandalized

past tense of scandalize

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for scandalized
Verb
  • Naroditsky's death at age 29 outraged his supporters in the chess world, who said he'd been bullied relentlessly by Kramnik, a former world champion who has accused many players of cheating in online play.
    Jason Abbruzzese, NBC news, 22 Oct. 2025
  • County Board supervisors outraged by the transparency failure Since the emails came to light, supervisors on the county's finance committee have grilled transit agency executives and expressed outrage about the transparency failures.
    Vanessa Swales, jsonline.com, 17 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • And sellers need to prepare to negotiate concessions like price credits and repairs rather than be offended by them.
    Aldo Svaldi, Denver Post, 24 Oct. 2025
  • And whoever is offended by it, that’s part of the problem.
    Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 23 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
  • People are disgusted with Israel’s response.
    Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Christine assures him that she could never be disgusted with him.
    Keith Phipps, Vulture, 26 Sep. 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
  • This isn’t the first time a dog has amazed the internet with spinal walking.
    Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Kim Kardashian knows how to turn heads, but the reaction to her shapewear brand Skims unveiling of thongs with fake pubic hair amazed even her.
    Anthony Robledo, USA Today, 18 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the outbreak has resulted in at least four deaths, and sickened 20 others.
    Amy McCarthy, PEOPLE, 11 Oct. 2025
  • The 15-state outbreak has sickened at least 20, killing four, since the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the FDA began investigating cases of listeria poisoning, or listeriosis, in September.
    Marina Johnson, Louisville Courier Journal, 7 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The crimes committed by Hamas and other armed factions on that day horrified us.
    Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Family members of Kinman’s biological father said in a statement that they were horrified at the news.
    Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 22 Oct. 2025
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“Scandalized.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scandalized. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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