Scandalize Definition

skăndl-īz
scandalized, scandalizes, scandalizing
verb
scandalized, scandalizes, scandalizing
To slander; defame.
Webster's New World
To shock or outrage the moral feelings of; offend by some improper or unconventional conduct; shock.
Webster's New World

To be offensive to someone.

Wiktionary

(nautical) To reduce the area and efficiency of a sail by expedient means (e.g. slacking the peak and tricing up the tack) without properly reefing, thus slowing boat speed.

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Scandalize Sentence Examples

  • Zaid was again asked to put an end to these variations which had begun to scandalize the votaries of the Prophet.

  • Rather than scandalize weaker brethren, Paul was willing to eat herbs the rest of his life.

  • Credo, quia absurdum was applied, notably by the popular writers of the French Second Empire, in a fashion grotesquely literal enough to scandalize Tertullian himself.

  • Let not then, he says, this scandalize you which I have said about eating of my flesh and about drinking of my blood.

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SSCSCA

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EZEIZE

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