scandalize

Example Sentences

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Here’s a way to scandalize your guests at your holiday party: Serve them boxed wine.

From Washington Post • Dec. 8, 2021

Her final chapter titled “Wild Child” is a panorama of bad deeds, as if to scandalize her children while also freeing them from fear of failure or harsh judgment.

From Salon • Oct. 17, 2019

Such a procedure should not scandalize anyone in our time.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 7, 2019

But unlike the prime-time soaps of yore, “UnReal” and “Being Mary Jane” use these extreme stories to illuminate real ideas, rather than just to scandalize or titillate.

From New York Times • Apr. 29, 2016

“You know I cain’t go, Hoyt. It would scandalize the town.”

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns