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scandalsome en · ADJ

Etymology

From scandal + -some.

Meanings

  1. Characterised or marked by scandal; scandalous
    • "Oh, I'll think — when I get through this scandalsome play I" Nan laughed again. 1922, Youth's Companion, volume 96, page 6:
    • But right now I got to sucker some of the other boys for the management.... So, maybe later?” He just smiled and she flounced off in her scandalsome outfit to drink tea water at scandalsome prices with those she had down as poor working stiffs. 2003, Tabor Evans, Longarm 292: Longarm and the Lady Hustlers:

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more scandalsome Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most scandalsome Degree=Sup lexicographic