At times she saw his name mentioned in the newspapers, and she smiled bitterly when she read accounts of sensational supper parties, scandalousproceedings which had attracted the attention of the public in which he had figured prominently.
To assert so is not only scandalous to human nature, but impious towards the Creator.
Marguerite did not care to be the butt of international gossip, so she enlisted her husband's aid in an effort to silence the scandalous tongues.
In other words, by his whim, the court took to wearing somber garments, changing its scandalous conversation for pious reflections and its unprintable novels for works on philosophy.
He engaged in a brawl with another courtier in the palace; and the scandalous scene, of which the reader will find an account in the preceding volume, took place when the prince of Asturias, Don Carlos, was breathing his last.
The thing made a big stir in the town, too, and a good many come out flatfooted and said it was scandalous to separate the mother and the children that way.
It must have reached him at one of those moments of remorse which, more than once, interrupted his scandalous career.
Still it is equally notorious, that several of the Catholic Journals, whose orthodoxy is above suspicion, have lifted up their voice against what has taken place, as scandalous to Christianity, and eminently perilous to the Church.
I raked up all the details of hisscandalous history; and there were enough to fill an encyclopaedia.
It had been vaguely expected that the great boss's portrait would have the zest of an incriminating document, the scandalous attraction of secret memoirs; and instead, it was as insipid as an obituary.
It was a very scandalous thing for a person who lived in constant neglect of his religious duties to come merely to qualify.
But however staid and reserved she might be, still these outings gave rise to scandalous talk.
Watched with suspicion by the Government, it concealed part of its doctrine, the most scandalous and subversive.
In Numidia, and especially at Constantine, scandalous scenes took place.
I think it is as scandalous for a woman not= 40 =to know how to use a needle as for a man not to know how to use a sword.
What is more scandalous than an old man just beginning to live?
When a bishop had bought his throne, he was rarely indisposed to sell the benefices in his gift, and to recoup a scandalous outlay by an equally scandalous traffic.
Thus ended one of the most scandalous cases of this century.
As Aymon looked through these scandalous memoirs, he made his own reflections.
The bishop wrote to them, imploring them to consider that they were all of them members of noble families, and that they must be careful in no way to dishonour their families by scandalous behaviour.
Is not the adulteration of food just now as scandalous as it is unchecked?
The administration of Manzanedas was toward the end disturbed by the scandalous dispute between the governor Villalobas and the Licentiate Roa, Lieutenant Auditor of the Royal Audiencia (a court of appeals in the West Indies).
He came into conflict more than once with the royal treasurer, Hurtado, and was denounced by that austere censor as a scandalous disturber of the peace.
The scandalous conduct of her officials had sadly lowered her prestige.
A strange whimsical old mortal, she called him, to come upon them so abruptly, and in such a scandalous garb, that Sir George was quite ashamed of him.
The scandalous conduct of so many of the Nobles had given fresh life to the popular party; and the Tribune C.
Gracchus and his adherents left the Nobility undisputed masters of the state, till their scandalous conduct in the Jugurthan War provoked a reaction against them, and raised to power a more terrible opponent than the Gracchi had ever been.
They now became perfectly scandalous in their freedom, and remained a bye-word for the rest of civilised Europe for a century afterwards.
His frantic excesses had become more and more scandalous as he grew older.
The gradual slackening of the bonds which bound the Spanish Church to the papacy, and the laxity of the ecclesiastical control which was a consequence, had brought aboutscandalous corruption amongst the higher and cloistered clergy.
These scandalous proceedings, which are but too true, perhaps, gave rise to the tradition of Popess Joan.
He asks Christ to give him grace to glory only in his cross, and in the inestimable weight of his sufferings, but his attention is directed less against the errors of the Roman Church, than the scandalous lives of its clergy.
In order to give regularity to this traffic, there was shortly after drawn up (probably by John XXII,) the famous and scandalous taxation of indulgences, of which there have been more than forty editions.
The scandalous examples and crimes of the court of Rome are the cause why Italy has lost every principle of piety and all religious sentiment.
The annals of the period teem with scandalous stories.
Sometimes they lectured her, called people and things by their names, and exhorted her to change so scandalous a life; but it was all in vain.
Okehampton, charges the Duke of York with scandalous conduct, iii, 270; the Freedom of the City voted to, id.
Afterwards at Patrae the elder Quintus talked freely to him in the same scandalous strain.
I command you, upon your duty, instantly to return with me, and renounce for ever the scandalous project of seducing an innocent young woman, whom you ought rather to respect and whom I will protect.
With one or two scandalous exceptions, the tone of the English press was sober, sensible, and self-possessed.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "scandalous" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
