scandalous

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scandalous englanniksi

Of a thing: causing or having the nature of a scandal; regarded as so immoral or wrong as to be extremely disgraceful; despicable, shameful.

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(RQ:Shakespeare Winter's Tale)
(RQ:Milton Paradise Regained)
(RQ:Burke Discontents)
(RQ:Scott Canongate 2)
(RQ:Macaulay History of England)
(RQ:Twain Huckleberry Finn)
Of a person: delighted by scandal.
(RQ:Tennyson Queen Mary)
Of speech or writing: defamatory, malicious.

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(RQ:Kyd Spanish Tragedie)
(RQ:Shakespeare Measure)
(RQ:Congreve Way of the World)
(RQ:Fielding Tom Jones)
(RQ:Blackstone Commentaries)
(RQ:Shelley Poetical Works)
(RQ:Corelli Thelma) I assure you I never had any suspicions of you at all. I always disregard gossip—it is generally scandalous, and seldom true.
(quote-web) Bieber of fathering her child in 2011.
Exceeding reasonable limits; outrageous.
(RQ:Austen Pride and Prejudice)
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Of a person: guilty of extremely disgraceful conduct or some misconduct; infamous; also, unfit for their office or position due to misconduct, etc.
(RQ:Walton Lives) to become charitable to the poor, and kind to his friends, and to make ſuch proviſion for his children, that they vvere not left ſcandalous, as relating to their or his Profeſſion and Quality.
(RQ:Marvell Works) ſeemed inclinable to abate the renunciation of the Covenant, the aſſent and conſent to the diſpenſing vvith Ceremonyes, the reforming the Biſhops Courts, the taking avvay of Pluralityes, the rectifying of Excommunications, the puniſhing of ''ſcandalous Clergymen'', and ſeverall things of this nature, (..)
(RQ:Clarendon History)
Of information, a statement, etc.: not pertinent to a matter; irrelevant, and bringing the court into disrepute.
(quote-book), Lord Chancellor|entry=Fenhoulet ''versus'' Passavant|editor=Francis Vezey|title=Cases Argued and Determined, in the High Court of Chancery, in the Time of Lord Chancellor Hardwicke, from the Year 1746–7, to 1755.(nb...)|location=London|publisher=(...) Strahan (publisher)|William Strahan and M. Woodfall, law-printers to his Majesty; for Cadell (publisher)|Thomas Cadell,(nb...)|year_published=1771|volume=II|section=case 9|page=24|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_cases-argued-and-determi_great-britain-court-of-_1771_2/page/n31/mode/1up|oclc=1325996130|passage=Scandal may be taken advantage of at any time, impertinence not; if reported ſcandalous, it muſt be impertinent of courſe; but it may be impertinent vvithout being ſcandalous. (..) Nothing pertinent to the cauſe can be ſaid to be ſcandalous.
(quote-book)|location=Springfield, Mass.|publisher=George and Charles Merriam|volume=III|section=paragraph 10|page=382|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=fzRFAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA382|oclc=4039853|passage=A party who makes an affidavit to oppose a motion is only authorized to state the facts; and it is scandalous and impertinent to draw inferences or state arguments in the affidavit, reflecting on the character or impeaching the motives of the adverse party or his solicitor. Ibid. (quote-gloss)
Causing offence or trouble.
(RQ:Milton Eikonoklastes)
Of a disease or symptom: putrid, rotting.
(RQ:Wiseman Chirurgicall Treatises) ſcandalous. If the matter paſſeth ''in perineo'', for the moſt part it perforates the ''Urethra'', ſometime like a Flute, and the Urine cometh thereout, othertimes it corrupteth vvithin, and diſchargeth the putrefaction into the ''pelvis''.