Scandalous

//ˈskændələs//

Definitions

1
Of a thing: causing or having the nature of a scandal; regarded as so immoral or wrong as to be extremely disgraceful; despicable, shameful.
[S]omthing ſauors / Of Tyrannie, and vvill ignoble make you, / Yea, ſcandalous to the VVorld.
Similar
abject filthy base
2
Of a person: delighted by scandal.
You are the stateliest deer in all the herd— / Beyond his aim—but I am small and scandalous, / And love to hear bad tales of Philip.
3
Of speech or writing: defamatory, malicious.
Theſe be the ſcandalous reportes of ſuch, / As loues not mee, and hate my Lord too much.
Opposite
nonscandalous unscandalous

Word Origin

From Late Middle English scandalouse (“disgraceful, shameful”), borrowed from Old French scandaleux (“scandalous”) (modern French scandaleux), from Medieval Latin scandalōsus, from Ecclesiastical Lati...

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