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Paraleipsis :: Paraleipsis (n.) A pretended or apparent omission; a figure by which a speaker artfully pretends to pass by what he really mentions; as, for example, if an orator should say, I do not speak of my adversary's scandalous venality and rapacity, his brutal conduct, his treachery and malice..

Scandal :: Scandal (n.) Anything alleged in pleading which is impertinent, and is reproachful to any person, or which derogates from the dignity of the court, or is contrary to good manners..

Scandalous :: Scandalous (a.) Defamatory; libelous; as, a scandalous story..

Rake :: Rake (n.) A loose, disorderly, vicious man; a person addicted to lewdness and other scandalous vices; a debauchee; a roue..

Scandalous :: Scandalous (a.) Disgraceful to reputation; bringing shame or infamy; opprobrious; as, a scandalous crime or vice..

Scandal :: Scandal (v. t.) To treat opprobriously; to defame; to asperse; to traduce; to slander.

Scandalous :: Scandalous (a.) Giving offense to the conscience or moral feelings; exciting reprobation; calling out condemnation.

Scandalizing :: Scandalizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scandaliz.

Scandalize :: Scandalize (v. t.) To offend the feelings or the conscience of (a person) by some action which is considered immoral or criminal; to bring shame, disgrace, or reproach upon..

Folly :: Folly (n.) Scandalous crime; sin; specifically, as applied to a woman, wantonness..

Flagitious :: Flagitious (a.) Disgracefully or shamefully criminal; grossly wicked; scandalous; shameful; -- said of acts, crimes, etc..

Exception :: Exception (n.) An objection, oral or written, taken, in the course of an action, as to bail or security; or as to the decision of a judge, in the course of a trail, or in his charge to a jury; or as to lapse of time, or scandal, impertinence, or insufficiency in a pleading; also, as in conveyancing, a clause by which the grantor excepts something before granted..

Scandal :: Scandal (n.) Reproachful aspersion; opprobrious censure; defamatory talk, uttered heedlessly or maliciously..

Scandalized :: Scandalized (imp. & p. p.) of Scandaliz.

Scandalously :: Scandalously (adv.) With a disposition to impute immorality or wrong.

Talebearer :: Talebearer (n.) One who officiously tells tales; one who impertinently or maliciously communicates intelligence, scandal, etc., and makes mischief..

Scandal :: Scandal (v. t.) To scandalize; to offend.

Furciferous :: Furciferous (a.) Rascally; scandalous.

Scandalize :: Scandalize (v. t.) To reproach; to libel; to defame; to slander.

Scandalousness :: Scandalousness (n.) Quality of being scandalous.

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