scandalous

scandalous is a 10-letter English word with 4 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Giving offense to the conscience or moral feelings; exciting reprobation; calling out condemnation. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

10 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 17 · 4 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Giving offense to the conscience or moral feelings; exciting reprobation; calling out condemnation.
2. adjective. Disgraceful to reputation; bringing shame or infamy; opprobrious; as, a scandalous crime or vice.
3. adjective. Defamatory; libelous; as, a scandalous story.
4. adjective. giving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to reputation- Thackeray

   "scandalous behavior"

   "the wicked rascally shameful conduct of the bankrupt"

   Synonyms: disgraceful, shameful, shocking

Synonyms

disgraceful, shameful, shocking

Common word forms

scandalously, scandalousness

Words from these letters

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