scandalous

scandalous
adj
1. disgraceful, shameful, dishonorable, degraded, inglorious; infamous, ignominious, odious, opprobrious, contemptible, despicable, sordid, detestable; degenerate, depraved, unmentionable, corrupt, reprehensible, debased, abased, vitiated, iniquitous, immoral, profligate; horrible, heinous, vicious, atrocious, flagitious, Archaic. facinorous, felonious; base, vile, evil, infernal, sinister, diabolic, sinful, bad, wrong; low, arrant, nefarious, mean, dastardly, villainous, ignoble; denunciatory, damnatory, execrable, deplorable, reproachful, vituperative, invective, fulminating, objurgatory, imprecatory; disreputable, discreditable, disfavorable; belittling, disparaging, deprecatory, derogatory, detracting, deflating, depreciating, devaluating; humiliating, humbling, mortifying.
2. immodest, improper, fulsome, unseemly, unbecoming, indecorous; unworthy, undutiful, delinquent, objectionable, uncommendable, reprovable, peccable, illaudable; shocking, outrageous, notorious, flagrant; indecent, lewd, obscene, perverse, lustful, lascivious, lecherous, licentious.
3. slanderous, libelous, calumnious, calumniatory, traducent, false, untrue, maliciously false or untrue, misrepresentative, aspersive, imputative, insinuating, gossiping; abusive, thersitical, hurtful, scurrilous, Archaic. scurrile, injurious, contumelious, insulting, backbiting; defiling, sullying, soiling, staining, smearing, smirching, tainting, tarnishing, blemishing, smudging, stigmatizing; defamatory, denigrating, vilifying, vilipenditory.

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