Er nai are not socially accepted, but they are not scandalous, either.
I visited orphanages in Eastern Europe 20 years ago, where the conditions were scandalous visions of hell but this is a world away.
As Jacques Delpla, an economist on the Council of Economic Analysis, points out, French governments have lived beyond their means even during the years of plenty—a failure he calls “scandalous”.
But it was a scandalous failure.
The Bible abounds with human not superhuman beings, and their behavior can be scandalous.
To practice it in criminal and vulgar ways is to exploit its scandalous materiality and ignore the immaterial frisson which constitutes its excellence.
But what really haunts the survivors of the latest disaster is the Irpinia earthquake that hit Campania and Basilicata in 1980. It was the prelude to a scandalous case of waste and corruption.
The revelation of his scandalous past led to his resignation.
It encourages people to push the limits: the more scandalous they are the more they attract the attention of the paparazzi.
He is a scandalous wife beater.
Given the scale of the problem, the lack of co-ordination between these outfits has been scandalous.
We are surprised by his scandalous behaviour.
We need to restore large sections of the financial industry to the mutual ownership that served this nation so well until the scandalous smash-and-grab raids of demutualisation in the 1990s.
It is not inherently scandalous, for example, that the Polish President was flying in a Soviet-made plane, recently serviced in Russia.
"It's scandalous," he said.
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It's scandalous that in 13 years of power New Labour did not abolish the charitable status of public schools.
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