scandalosity
scandalosity noun: the quality of being scandalous.
Noun
scandalosity (countable and uncountable, plural scandalosities)
- The quality of being scandalous.
- 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.1923, Edwin Baird, Fay, New York, N.Y.: Edward J. Clode, page 57
- Our sports are far from — how you say? — scandalosity?1976 July 30, “Tiny nation big on Olympics”, in The Courier-Journal, Louisville, Ken., page C 5
- Synonyms:
- scandalousness
- Something scandalous.
- “What a scandalosity!” for an outraged sense of decorum prevailed over his use of sane English.c. 1889?, Dramatic and Musical Criticisms
- “What a scandalosity!” he exclaimed a moment later, as he met Miss Bailey in the wings. “You ought to be ashamed of myself!”1900 March 6, “Shapely Chorus Girl Lashes Dave Warfield. Frankie Bailey Attacks Comedian with a Rawhide. Is Put out of the Company—Court Martial on the Weber & Fields Stage Decides That She Must Go...
Examples of scandalosity in a sentence
- 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:[…]1977, Marta Ester Sánchez, Three Latin-American Novelists in Search of Lo Americano: A Productive Failure, pages 119–120:
- 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.2003, Wendy Williams, Karen Hunter, Wendy’s Got the Heat, Atria Books, →ISBN, page 91:
- Rating the scandals[…]Let’s create a Scandalosity Rating System, with units everyone understands.2008 July 17, Patt Morrison, “Rating the scandals”, in Los Angeles Times, page A21:
- But jest yo’ lemme tell yo’ that knocker on the front door is a plumb scandalosity, an’ I isn’t gwine do yo’ wuck.1932, The Adventures of the Black Duse, Judd & Detweiler, Inc., page 209:
Synonyms of scandalosity
Forms of scandalosity
| plural | scandalosities |
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Origin of scandalosity
From scandalous + -osity.
Questions about scandalosity
- What does scandalosity mean?
- Scandalosity means the quality of being scandalous.
- How do you use scandalosity in a sentence?
- 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:[…]
- What part of speech is scandalosity?
- Scandalosity is a noun.
- What is the plural of scandalosity?
- The plural of scandalosity is scandalosities.
Words near scandalosity in the dictionary
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