Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Scandalous character or condition.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Quality of being scandalous.
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- noun The quality of being
scandalous .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun disgracefulness that offends public morality
Etymologies
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Examples
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More TM analogies: People still get name changes rejected on deceptiveness grounds (Chief rejected as deceptive indicator of authority; names of other people adopted for misleading others into a belief in relationship or identity with a famous person — Peter Lorry) and scandalousness (Fuck Censorship).
IPSC: trademark and the consumer Rebecca Tushnet 2009
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More TM analogies: People still get name changes rejected on deceptiveness grounds (Chief rejected as deceptive indicator of authority; names of other people adopted for misleading others into a belief in relationship or identity with a famous person — Peter Lorry) and scandalousness (Fuck Censorship).
Archive 2009-08-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009
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The TTABlog reports that the TTAB affirmed the refusal of PUSSY NATURAL ENERGY for various beverages, including energy drinks, on scandalousness grounds.
Archive 2009-05-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009
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Your comics about the silliness/absurdity/scandalousness of the better known art word are great little commentaries on timely events which sometimes extend beyond the temporal.
Mirror Image EAGEAGEAG 2010
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You have to be impressed by the way he takes pride in his own scandalousness.
Le salaud lumineux 2008
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You have to be impressed by the way he takes pride in his own scandalousness.
Archive 2008-09-01 2008
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But any major museum exhibition with almost 200 works in it is obviously about more than the scandalousness of a single piece of art.
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The treatment of scandalousness should be like that for genericide.
Works in progress: Jasmine Abdel-khalik Rebecca Tushnet 2006
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One involving a major celebrity: the “Jeff Gannon” case shows that scandalousness per se is no longer enough of a torpedo to penetrate the superchristian hull.
The Discovery Institute and Public Relations - The Panda's Thumb 2005
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Readers eager for Byronic scandalousness would have been shocked if a woman had voiced it.
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