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Recent Examples of scandalize
As Alexandra Plakias has noted, philosophical about-faces should not scandalize us; they should be honored.
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Shai Tubali, Big Think, 30 Sep. 2025
The young man’s beauty, musical talents, and athletic prowess, however, belie volatile currents of desire and rage, which will eventually scandalize the community and unsettle Priscilla and Diamond’s faiths.
—The New Yorker, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025
The prospect of Mamdani’s mayoralty scandalized many of New York’s power brokers, some of whom vowed to stop him in the November general election.
—Mark Chiusano, Time, 14 Aug. 2025
An accomplished classical violinist and wool-skirt woman of the old school, she was scandalized.
—Nancy Walecki, The Atlantic, 7 Aug. 2025
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No, absolutely not, what does offend me, though, is having the poppy try be forced upon me.—
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When no one in the Fortune 500 wants to risk offending Trump, leave it to Spike the Fine Motor Hedgehog to take care of business.—
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The United States has now given Russia, China, and anyone else who wants to give it a try a road map for invading countries and capturing leaders who displease them, with a lawlessness that by comparison makes the 2003 invasion of Iraq seem as lawyered up as a bank merger.—
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Trump has also extracted settlements from ABC and CBS News in lawsuits over stories that displeased him, and is suing the New York Times and Wall Street Journal.—
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This claim — and the American military intervention in Venezuela this weekend — has outraged some in neighboring Colombia, particularly those on the left, who warn of American interventionism and regional hegemony.—
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Black Lives Matter leaders, who hosted the Sunday night vigil, are outraged by what happened.—
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Around 2024, their mass torts business began booming, starting with the landfill lawsuits, in which the firm accused the operators of recklessly allowing nauseating odors.—
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Alcohol can lower blood glucose because your liver is busy metabolizing alcohol instead of maintaining your blood sugar, leaving you feeling shaky, weak, or nauseated.—
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Most of those sickened were not vaccinated, and two children died.—
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Just thinking about it totally sickens me.—
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The Secretary of State called the event an attempt to frighten public servants.—
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But monks there complained that the slain king was walking around at night, frightening them with strange sounds.—
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Will people revolt down the line?—
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House conservatives are quietly revolting against Speaker Mike Johnson’s leadership style.—
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An artist who never fails to amaze me.—
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The universe amazed me yet again.—
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“Scandalize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scandalize. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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