Crossword-Solution: SCANDALOUS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Scandalous | a. | Giving offense to the conscience or moral feelings; exciting reprobation; calling out condemnation. |
| Scandalous | a. | Disgraceful to reputation; bringing shame or infamy; opprobrious; as, a scandalous crime or vice. |
| Scandalous | a. | Defamatory; libelous; as, a scandalous story. |
We have 25 clues for the answer “SCANDALOUS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Shocking Prince "Batman" song? | 1 answer |
| Of a state of affairs shockingly bad | 1 answer |
| Like Watergate | 1 answer |
| Highly improper | 1 answer |
| Causing outrage | 1 answer |
| backstairs | 12 answers |
| Gamy | 18 answers |
| unparliamentary | 48 answers |
| libelling | 49 answers |
| shaming | 49 answers |
| reviling | 49 answers |
| maledictory | 49 answers |
| imprecatory | 49 answers |
| humiliating | 49 answers |
| fulminatory | 49 answers |
| comminatory | 49 answers |
| anathematising | 49 answers |
| injuring | 50 answers |
| damnatory | 50 answers |
| discreditable | 51 answers |
| censorious | 52 answers |
| Maleficent | 53 answers |
| Scurrilous | 54 answers |
| Vitriolic | 56 answers |
| Shocking | 88 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
A moving of the mind or soul; excitement of the feelings,
whether pleasing or painful; disturbance or agitation of mind caused by
a specific exciting cause and manifested by some sensible effect on the
body.
Hint 2 anagram
MNOTIOE
Hint 3 another clue
A FEELING OF GREAT ELATION
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Sentences with SCANDALOUS (5)
The thing made a big stir in the town, too, and a good many come out flatfooted and said it was scandalous to separate the mother and the children that way.
Then, with a solemnity born of the hour and his own condition, he looked round on us: “Gentlemen, my friends--Rudolf, my cousin [‘tis a scandalous story, Rudolf, on my honour!), everything is yours to the half of Ruritania.
The evil blazes up like a fire; and they will not extinguish it, either by restricting a man's use of his own property, or by another remedy: What other? One which is the next best, and has the advantage of compelling the citizens to look to their characters:--Let there be a general rule that every one shall enter into voluntary contracts at his own risk, and there will be less of this scandalous money-making, and the evils of which we were speaking will be greatly lessened in the State.
Being a person who produces a sensation wherever she goes, this noble lady is naturally made the subject of all sorts of scandalous reports.
But she answered him only with harsh lamentations and imprecations, and ended by telling him that her daughter was her property, not his, and that his interference was most insolent and most scandalous.
Quotes with SCANDALOUS (3)
... I believe in a God of scandalous grace. I have pledged allegiance to a King who loved evildoers so much he died for them, teaching us that there is something worth dying for but nothing worth killing for.
For, what is order without common sense, but Bedlam’s front parlor? What is imagination without common sense, but the aspiration to out-dandy Beau Brummell with nothing but a bit of faded muslin and a limp cravat? What is Creation without common sense, but a scandalous thing without form or function, like a matron with half a dozen unattached daughters? And God looked upon the Creation in all its delightful multiplicity, and saw that, all in all, it was quite Amiable.
Of course, even before Flaubert, people knew stupidity existed, but they understood it somewhat differently: it was considered a simple absence of knowledge, a defect correctable by education. In Flaubert's novels, stupidity is an inseparable dimension of human existence. It accompanies poor Emma throughout her days, to her bed of love and to her deathbed, over which two deadly agélastes, Homais and Bournisien, go on endlessly trading their inanities like a kind of funeral or…
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Appears in: NYT, Rock & Roll, Universal.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1970–2014).