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词汇 scandalously
释义 scandalously
adverb
uk /ˈskæn.dəl.əs.li/ us /ˈskæn.dəl.əs.li/
in a way or to a degree that shocks people or makes them feel annoyed or upset: 令人反感地;令人震惊地
scandalously expensive 贵得令人反感
Scandalously, these extraordinary claims won't be investigated.令人震惊的是,这些非同寻常的指控并不会被调查。
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scandalous
Research into the disease is scandalously underfunded.
He ruffled feathers at several staid universities by scandalously living with both his wife and mistress.
In Britain there is a scandalously low proportion of translated literature.
Free kicks and corners were scandalously wasted.
Most scandalously of all, almost a million pounds of lottery money contributed to the cost of its production.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

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abhorrent
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amoral
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dissoluteness
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nefariousness
no goodidiom
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unconscionable
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But to stress the waste in all this is to miss the point, 'because one got r ich without limit, scandalously'.
Now, scandalously, they gain again from the flat rate subsidy of £140 off the poll tax, not just on one home but on both their homes.
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She was scandalously deceived—and there is no doubt about that—by what she considered to be her greatest political friend.
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All the same, he has misled them, grossly misled them, scandalously misled them.
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Too many people are losing their homes, having made their mortgage repayments, because of our scandalously unfair and out-of-date leasehold laws.
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A decisive role will be played by an increase in the investment quota which continues to be quite scandalously low!
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
The nuclear sector confirms that it is prohibitively expensive and benefits from scandalously advantageous conditions compared with sectors that produce ‘clean’ energy.
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The word "scandalously" is almost too weak a word to use.
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These high rents are based upon the scandalously high cost of the development.
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In all aspects for farmers' communications are vital, and they have been scandalously neglected.
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The old 1857 doctrine was that if both parties behaved scandalously, probably no divorce, but if one party committed one act of adultery, divorce certain.
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The distribution of capital wealth in this country is scandalously unequal at the moment.
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If it was scandalously neglected in 1983, no-one can pretend that it is anything else but scandalously neglected now.
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Wages must not be depressed to the scandalously low level of agricultural wages.
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Will he bear in mind that widows' pensions are scandalously low?
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