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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Scandalous \Scan"dal*ous\, a. [Cf. F. scandaleux.]
     1. Giving offense to the conscience or moral feelings;
        exciting reprobation; calling out condemnation.
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              Nothing scandalous or offensive unto any. --Hooker.


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     2. Disgraceful to reputation; bringing shame or infamy;
        opprobrious; as, a scandalous crime or vice.
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     3. Defamatory; libelous; as, a scandalous story.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  scandalous
       adj : giving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to
             reputation; "scandalous behavior"; "the wicked rascally
             shameful conduct of the bankrupt"- Thackeray; "the most
             shocking book of its time" [syn: {disgraceful}, {shameful},
              {shocking}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  179 Moby Thesaurus words for "scandalous":
     aberrant, abnormal, abominable, abusive, arrant, atrocious, awful,
     back-biting, backbiting, bad, base, beastly, belittling,
     beneath contempt, beneath one, bitchy, black, blamable,
     blameworthy, brutal, calumniatory, calumnious, catty, censorious,
     cheap, contemptible, contemptuous, contumelious, criminal, crying,
     damnable, dark, debasing, defamatory, degrading, delinquent,
     demeaning, deplorable, deprecatory, depreciative, depreciatory,
     derisive, derisory, derogative, derogatory, desperate, despicable,
     detestable, detracting, detractory, deviant, dire, disgraceful,
     disgusting, dishonorable, disparaging, disreputable, dreadful,
     egregious, enormous, evil, execrable, fetid, filthy, flagitious,
     flagrant, foul, fulsome, grievous, gross, gutter, hardly the thing,
     hateful, heinous, horrible, horrid, humiliating, humiliative,
     ignominious, illegal, immodest, immoral, improper, inappropriate,
     incorrect, indecent, indecorous, infamous, infra dig,
     infra indignitatem, iniquitous, injurious, knavish, lamentable,
     lascivious, lecherous, lewd, libelous, licentious, loathsome,
     lousy, low, lustful, maligning, minimizing, monstrous, nasty,
     naughty, nefarious, noisome, not done, not the thing, notorious,
     obnoxious, odious, off-base, off-color, offensive, opprobrious,
     out-of-line, outrageous, peccant, pejorative, pitiable, pitiful,
     profligate, rank, regrettable, reprehensible, reprobate, repulsive,
     ridiculing, rotten, sacrilegious, sad, schlock, scurrile,
     scurrilous, scurvy, shabby, shameful, shameless, shocking, shoddy,
     sinful, slanderous, slighting, sordid, sorry, squalid, taboo,
     terrible, too bad, unbecoming, unclean, undue, unfit, unfitting,
     unforgivable, unlawful, unmentionable, unpardonable, unrighteous,
     unseemly, unspeakable, unsuitable, unworthy, unworthy of one,
     vicious, vile, vilifying, villainous, wicked, woeful, worst,
     worthless, wretched, wrong, wrongful
  
  

















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