scandalous

[ skan-dl-uh s ]

/ ˈskæn dl əs /

disgraceful; shameful or shocking; improper: scandalous behavior in public.

defamatory or libelous, as a speech or writing.

attracted to or preoccupied with scandal, as a person: a scandalous, vicious gossip.

Origin of scandalous

From the Medieval Latin word scandalōsus, dating back to 1585–95. See scandal, -ous

scan·dal·ous·ly, adverb scan·dal·ous·ness, noun non·scan·dal·ous, adjective non·scan·dal·ous·ly, adverb

su·per·scan·dal·ous, adjective su·per·scan·dal·ous·ly, adverb un·scan·dal·ous, adjective un·scan·dal·ous·ly, adverb

And any lover of “Seinfeld” would regard banning the “Soup Nazi” episode as scandalously un-American.

Should Neo-Nazis Be Allowed Free Speech? |Thane Rosenbaum |January 31, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
Michael Gorra on a new history of their dismal lives—and how Dickens scandalously abandoned their mother after years of marriage.

Charles Dickens’s Unhappy Children |Michael Gorra |December 2, 2012 |DAILY BEAST
China believes that the U.S. is mistakenly and scandalously holding it responsible for deep-seated made-in-America problems.

Courting Trouble With China |Jeffrey E. Garten |March 22, 2010 |DAILY BEAST
China also believes that the U.S. is mistakenly and scandalously holding it responsible for deep-seated made-in-America problems.

Courting Trouble With China |Jeffrey E. Garten |March 22, 2010 |DAILY BEAST

She acknowledges that the work has been "garbled, misrepresented, scandalously ill-treated."

Margaret Fuller (Marchesa Ossoli) |Julia Ward Howe
And how scandalously I had to treat her when I stayed there before.

The Dragon's Secret |Augusta Huiell Seaman
So scandalously debauched a people as that of Venice is to be met with nowhere else.

The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. I. (of 12) |Edmund Burke
Our left behav'd scandalously and ran away, but our right routed the enimies left and most of their body.

Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. |Mrs. Thomson
Between you and Mr. Theydon, the work of my department has been hindered and burked most scandalously.

Number Seventeen |Louis Tracy