1 ~ (that...) shocking and unacceptable:
a scandalous waste of money * It is scandalous that he has not been punished. * The decision is nothing short of scandalous.
2 [onlybeforenoun] containing talk about the shocking or immoral things that people have done or are thought to have done:
scandalous stories
scandalously adverb:
scandalously low pay
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
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This entry for scandalous is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is scandalous a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, scandalous is tagged as adjective.
Does scandalous appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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