Scandalous

Adjective

 * 1) wrong, immoral, causing a scandal
 * 2) * 1884, Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
 * 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.
 * 1) malicious, defamatory
 * 2) * 1592, Thomas Kyd, The Spanish Tragedie
 * These be the scandalous reports of such / As loves not me, and hate my lord too much.
 * 1) * 1887, Marie Corelli, Thelma
 * I always disregard gossip--it is generally scandalous, and seldom true.

Adverbs for Scandalous
unfortunately; openly; uncommonly; arrantly; terribly; shamefully; undeniably; flagrantly; admittedly; highly; regrettably; sadly; deplorably; grossly; notably.

Thesaurus
aberrant, abnormal, abominable, abusive, arrant, atrocious, awful, back-biting, backbiting, bad, base, beastly, belittling, beneath contempt, beneath one, bitchy, black, blamable, blameworthy, brutal, calumniatory, calumnious, catty, censorious, cheap, contemptible, contemptuous, contumelious, criminal, crying, damnable, dark, debasing, defamatory, degrading, delinquent, demeaning, deplorable, deprecatory, depreciative, depreciatory, derisive, derisory, derogative, derogatory, desperate, despicable, detestable, detracting, detractory, deviant, dire, disgraceful, disgusting, dishonorable, disparaging, disreputable, dreadful, egregious, enormous, evil, execrable, fetid, filthy, flagitious, flagrant, foul, fulsome, grievous, gross, gutter, hardly the thing, hateful, heinous, horrible, horrid, humiliating, humiliative, ignominious, illegal, immodest, immoral, improper, inappropriate, incorrect, indecent, indecorous, infamous, infra dig, infra indignitatem, iniquitous, injurious, knavish, lamentable, lascivious, lecherous, lewd, libelous, licentious, loathsome, lousy, low, lustful, maligning, minimizing, monstrous, nasty, naughty, nefarious, noisome, not done, not the thing, notorious, obnoxious, odious, off-base, off-color, offensive, opprobrious, out-of-line, outrageous, peccant, pejorative, pitiable, pitiful, profligate, rank, regrettable, reprehensible, reprobate, repulsive, ridiculing, rotten, sacrilegious, sad, schlock, scurrile, scurrilous, scurvy, shabby, shameful, shameless, shocking, shoddy, sinful, slanderous, slighting, sordid, sorry, squalid, taboo, terrible, too bad, unbecoming, unclean, undue, unfit, unfitting, unforgivable, unlawful, unmentionable, unpardonable, unrighteous, unseemly, unspeakable, unsuitable, unworthy, unworthy of one, vicious, vile, vilifying, villainous, wicked, woeful, worst, worthless, wretched, wrong, wrongful

Etymology
From scandalosus:, via  scandaleuse:; as if scandal + -ous.

Translations

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 * German:
 * Russian: скандальный
 * Spanish: escandaloso


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 * German:
 * Russian: скандальный


 * : scandaleus

Derived terms

 * scandalously
 * scandalousness