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。 See 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. Morally wrong and evil abhorrent abhorrently amoral amorality anomie dissipated dissolute dissolutely dissoluteness enormity nefariously nefariousness no goodidiom no more Mr Nice Guyidiom non-ethical trespass turpitude unconscionable unconscionably unethical Examples of scandalouslyscandalously 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. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 She was scandalously deceived—and there is no doubt about that—by what she considered to be her greatest political friend. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 All the same, he has misled them, grossly misled them, scandalously misled them. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Too many people are losing their homes, having made their mortgage repayments, because of our scandalously unfair and out-of-date leasehold laws. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 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. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English The word "scandalously" is almost too weak a word to use. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These high rents are based upon the scandalously high cost of the development. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In all aspects for farmers' communications are vital, and they have been scandalously neglected. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 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. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The distribution of capital wealth in this country is scandalously unequal at the moment. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If it was scandalously neglected in 1983, no-one can pretend that it is anything else but scandalously neglected now. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Wages must not be depressed to the scandalously low level of agricultural wages. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Will he bear in mind that widows' pensions are scandalously low? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 See all examples of scandalously These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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