scandalize
/ˈskændəlaɪz/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.65 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Overhearing the lewd joke, the dowager gave a scandalized gasp."
- "Woe to thee who art often wandering abroad, and spendest thy time unprofitably, and scandalizest others."
- "Thou scandalizest me and irritatest my nature as much as it possibly can be irritated."
- "When this conversation was repeated in detail within the hearing of the young woman in question, and undoubtedly for his benefit, Mr. Trevor threw shame to the winds and scandalized the Misses Brewster then and there by proclaiming his father to have been a country storekeeper."
- "Kautsky put this forward as a general hypothesis and not something that was bound to occur, but Lenin was scandalized by the idea of capitalism without wars, a state of affairs in which revolutions too would be much less likely."
- "The mainsail was "scandalised" - a nautical mode of describing a sail reefed at both ends[.]"
Etymology
From Latin scandalizō, from Ancient Greek σκανδαλίζω (skandalízō). By surface analysis, scandal + -ize.
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: scandalizō, σκανδαλίζω
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈskændəlaɪz/
Usage
Inflected Forms
Derived Forms
Phrases
scandalize the court