scandalize

It is a risky undertaking—one that will probably scandalize the purists—but it is also a profoundly literary one.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026

Now 64, he was initially passed off as her brother so as not to crack her “virginal feel and glow,” or to scandalize society, Cardinale’s daughter, Claudia Squitieri said.

From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2023

So when these powerful figures scandalize us, we lose our faith in our social world, or in our capacity to govern it.

From Slate ● Aug. 26, 2020

The question is no longer whether the latest revelation will scandalize Jim Bob sitting in a truck stop, but whether or not it's legally substantive evidence to be included in articles of impeachment.

From Salon ● Oct. 18, 2019

I think Jackson got it to scandalize me, since the red velvet cover was decidedly lurid, but it ended up being a very good story.

From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland

An expression should never be banned for just being extremely offensive, regardless of whether it scandalizes a religious or any other type of cherished concept.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 19, 2022

Instead of treating them like the NFL’s beneficent owner-demigods, responsible for the league’s and players’ fortunes, college football instead ignores, scandalizes, and criminalizes any serious valuation of its athletes.

From Slate ● Dec. 1, 2020

Equally noteworthy are Georgia's "My Happy Family," a fine naturalistic examination of a 50-something woman whose desire to live alone scandalizes her patriarchal culture.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 19, 2017

One time he bites a lady, another time a banker; he scandalizes the depositors, horrifies the in-laws he hates, disturbs the wife he loves.

From Time Magazine Archive

Your Roman scandalizes you, and my George bores me.

From A House-Party Don Gesualdo and A Rainy June by Ouida

The group quieted down like scandalized school children.

From Salon ● May 29, 2026

But those who spoke to The Wall Street Journal weren’t scandalized by the show’s existence.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026

Part hobo, part insult comic, part performance artist, Diogenes flaunted his disregard for convention in ways that scandalized the bourgeoisie of Athens and, later, Corinth, after his banishment from Sinope became permanent.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 17, 2025

This is how invisibility operates: Things that scandalized us four months ago fail to penetrate today.

From Slate ● May 21, 2025

“I don’t,” I said, looking scandalized that she’d even suggest it and mortified by the way the other girls were now staring at me.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

A mosque attendant, appalled, caught the diggers in action and rumors began to fly, scandalizing members of the city’s various faiths.

From New York Times ● Oct. 31, 2021

One narrative was that Brooks was scandalizing the idea of “real” country music because he incorporated rock music into tracks like “Papa Loved Mama” and covered Aerosmith.

From Washington Post ● May 11, 2021

Moreover, McKinley welcomed the influx of immigrants then coming to America, scandalizing the GOP’s Anglo-Saxon Protestant leadership by inviting groups of foreign-born workers to visit his Canton, Ohio, home during his campaign.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 4, 2018

Bertram, a bachelor pastor on Long Island who was scandalizing locals with his “daring riding, fashionable dress, and manner of conducting his church.”

From Slate ● Mar. 22, 2018

It is told in this fashion by Mairobert in a pamphlet scandalizing Du Barry in 1776: His Majesty loves to make his own coffee and to forsake the cares of the government.

From All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers