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Recent Examples of Synonyms for scandalizing
Verb
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On Day 1 of the truce, and in the days since, Israel has stepped up attacks against Hezbollah, an Iranian proxy, in Lebanon, outraging Iran and leading to accusations the terms had been breached.—
Justin Fishel,
ABC News,
10 Apr. 2026
Verb
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Today, some of the offending posts are gone.—
Toby Axelrod,
Sun Sentinel,
11 May 2026
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The collection was packed away in the museum’s vault, untouched for decades to avoid offending Islamic values or creating the appearance of catering to Western sensibilities.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
8 May 2026
Verb
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Sugar water can spoil, sickening the little birds.—
Ernie Cowan,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
12 Apr. 2026
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Yet Bragg couldn’t tell the parent just how severely ill their fellow South Carolinians were getting from the outbreak sickening people around them.—
Jennifer Berry Hawes,
CNN Money,
21 Feb. 2026
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The plot’s framework mirrors Orwell’s with animals revolting against a farmer’s working conditions (sending them off to a slaughterhouse being the biggie).—
Randy Myers,
Mercury News,
30 Apr. 2026
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While peers like Coco Chanel or Christian Dior made clothing that was radically simple or effusively beautiful, Schiaparelli embraced what was surprising, in bad taste or even revolting (a pair of 1938 monkey fur boots, for example).—
Rachel Tashjian,
CNN Money,
28 Mar. 2026
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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
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The smell was overwhelming, a nauseating mix of rotting food, burning plastic, chemicals and decay that clung to my clothes and skin.—
CNN Money,
CNN Money,
15 Apr. 2026
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Plus, nobody will careen past you at 110 mph, scaring you spitless.—
Allen Best,
Denver Post,
24 Apr. 2026
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This isn’t a film about trauma, or smuggled-in social issues, or anything at all, really, besides the honest workaday business of scaring the bejesus out of its audience, rinsing, and repeating with extra vigor.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
16 Apr. 2026
Verb
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The consequences of disgusting one’s wife, whether or not one agrees with her premise, could be enormous.—
Judith Martin,
Mercury News,
6 Apr. 2026
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Discharge Papers • Aw, The Pitt is back and happy to be disgusting again!—
Maggie Fremont,
Vulture,
16 Jan. 2026
Verb
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He is seen walking down the middle of the street, terrorizing drivers and waving and shooting a long gun.—
Cheryl Fiandaca,
CBS News,
12 May 2026
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Trump is terrorizing our immigrant communities.—
Lucas Robinson,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
7 May 2026
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“Scandalizing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scandalizing. Accessed 14 May. 2026.
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