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scandaliser

scandaliser is the alternative form of scandalizer.

Meaning of scandalizer

Noun

scandalizer (plural scandalizers)

  1. One who scandalizes.
    • ...and, happily, Lady Anne was incapable of fulfilling her own purpose, and of displaying herself, at once, as the scandalizer of the order she was proud of, and the mother who could injure and disgrace so admirable a family of daughters.1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter XLVII, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 304

Forms of scandaliser

pluralscandalisers

Origin of scandaliser

From scandalise + -er.

Questions about scandaliser

What is scandaliser the alternative form of?
Scandaliser is the alternative form of scandalizer.

Words near scandaliser in the dictionary

  1. scandaling
  2. scandalisation
  3. scandalisations
  4. scandalise
  5. scandalised
  6. scandaliser
  7. scandalisers
  8. scandalises
  9. scandalising
  10. scandalism
  11. scandalisms

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Adapted from Wiktionary: scandaliser (page history and authors); scandalizer (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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