scandalousness love

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.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • 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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scandalous +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • You have to be impressed by the way he takes pride in his own scandalousness.

    Le salaud lumineux 2008

  • You have to be impressed by the way he takes pride in his own scandalousness.

    Archive 2008-09-01 2008

  • But any major museum exhibition with almost 200 works in it is obviously about more than the scandalousness of a single piece of art.

    Arts Extra: The 'Censorship Drill Again? Yo Mama!' 2007

  • The treatment of scandalousness should be like that for genericide.

    Works in progress: Jasmine Abdel-khalik Rebecca Tushnet 2006

  • 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

  • Readers eager for Byronic scandalousness would have been shocked if a woman had voiced it.

    Contesting the Heterodoxy: Mrs. Hemans vs. Lord Byron 2001

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