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Recent Examples of scandalous Kimmel, who has spent most of his late-night career as a flippant but not particularly scandalous figure, acknowledged just how scary things had become that the White House might take aim at him. David Sims, The Atlantic, 24 Sep. 2025 Most scandalous of all, there’s hardly any Leatherface. Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 21 Sep. 2025 In between her cutting jabs, the Dowager Countess dropped so many scandalous hints from her past that this could run for years. Allison Adato, PEOPLE, 16 Sep. 2025 This is a shockingly scandalous choice for an amateur theater debut. Emily Zarevich, JSTOR Daily, 11 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for scandalous
Recent Examples of Synonyms for scandalous
Adjective
  • Football is a way of bringing people together irrespective of their faith, colour or religion and this disgusting decision does the exact opposite.
    Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 18 Oct. 2025
  • These are more disgusting smears peddled by the media and billboard law firms.
    Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Engineers outfitted the device with a heater to melt ice in the winter, a customization that should improve accuracy during Arizona’s freeze-thaw cycles that have long created erroneous measurements.
    Hayleigh Evans, AZCentral.com, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Vedra and other debt law experts said a high rate of default judgments indicates a system that favors the pursuers over the pursued — and increases the chances someone will be harmed by an erroneous bill.
    Rae Ellen Bichell, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Like Mitchell, Estrada has a knack for softening the sharp edges of our emotions and finding beauty in our ugly truths.
    Cat Cardenas, Rolling Stone, 13 Oct. 2025
  • The results were … predictably ugly for the Warriors.
    Joseph Dycus, Mercury News, 13 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The injury was so sickening that the CBS broadcast only replayed it once, lest anyone with a weak stomach lose their lunch.
    Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Just a sickening day for Jameson Williams’ managers.
    Michael Salfino, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • In recent weeks, though, her group has doubled in size, and while in the past there were only two or three posts per day, Mitchell and her new moderators now have to wade through 60-plus comments ranging from helpful to libelous.
    Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 25 Apr. 2025
  • And in this age of clickbait journalism, even those members of the legacy media have resorted to libelous headlines and false reports to generate views.
    Zach Schonfeld, The Hill, 24 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • And in a shocking twist, it was revealed that on one of the highest voting nights, no celebrity will be going home this week.
    Amanda Castro, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Google’s Pixel 10 Pro Fold became the first smartphone to explode during a JerryRigEverything durability test, marking a shocking moment in YouTuber Zack Nelson’s decade-long history of stress-testing devices.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 14 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Dougherty said the previous school board decided not to pursue a bond after unfavorable polling showed voters would not be in favor of a facilities bond in the 2024 election.
    Julie Gallant, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Oct. 2025
  • The iPhone 17′s margin could also be squeezed by an unfavorable product mix and a higher bill of materials cost.
    Lisa Kailai Han, CNBC, 13 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • And reminds us all once again of what an utterly horrible, small, bad, & insecure person Trump is.
    Deputy News Editor, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Oct. 2025
  • But during the difficult years, when a horrible cocktail of apathy and toxicity set in, attendance was notably lower.
    Amy Lawrence, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025

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“Scandalous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scandalous. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.

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