Meaning of scandalosity | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The quality of being scandalous.
   rare, uncountable
2. Something scandalous.
   countable, rare

Examples

“Miss⟳ Somebody, who also sings, got greenly jealous, and as she couldn’t rap Fay’s voice she knocked her face⟳; and one can swing⟳ a hammer⟳ there with cruel scandalosity.”

“Our sports are far from — how you say⟳? — scandalosity?”

“And though we may concede that "Axolotl" is a narrative whose outrageous scandalosity to our everyday world is surely beyond dispute, we must also acknowledge that it has rules of its own⟳:[…]”

“I expanded my Dishing the Dirt to my night show⟳ where celebrities would frequent the studio for interviews and I developed my style of high drama and scandalosity.”

“Rating the scandals[…]Let’s create⟳ a Scandalosity Rating System, with units everyone understands.”

““What a scandalosity!” for an outraged sense⟳ of decorum prevailed over his use⟳ of sane English.”

““What a scandalosity!” he exclaimed a moment later, as he met Miss⟳ Bailey in the wings. “You ought to be ashamed of myself!””

“Still, when a miners’ agent lays himself out to consider⟳ the scandalosities of life, it isn’t for mere newspaper folk to offer⟳ a word on the subject.”

“I’m forever whitewashing after them, whitewashing off the scandalosities they do be scrabbling on the privy walls.”

“But jest yo’ lemme tell⟳ yo’ that knocker on the front door is a plumb scandalosity, an’ I isn’t gwine do yo’ wuck.”

“Please⟳ permit⟳ me to tell⟳ you that I have⟳ never yet indulged in scandalosities of that kind.”

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