scandalize

Example Sentences

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The two friends got to talking about the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, whose recent piece “In the White Giant’s Thigh” had scandalized some readers — but not them — with its provocative images of “butter fat goosegirls.”

From Washington Post

Don’t we read about murder to be shocked, scandalized?

From New York Times

The Tiger Mom in the room, who’s read all the research on sugar, is visibly scandalized.

From Washington Post

Cale’s incendiary student performances — including one that involved playing a piano with his elbows — scandalized some of the faculty, but he was already dreaming of America.

From New York Times

His legacy is the degradation of political discourse to the monosyllabic tirades of Shakespeare's Caliban, which simultaneously scandalize and energize the kabuki theater that passes for government.

From Salon