Adjective

(en adjective)

wrong, immoral, causing a scandal

* 1884, Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

The thing made a big stir in the town, too, and a good many come out flatfooted and said it was scandalous to separate the mother and the children that way.

malicious, defamatory

* 1592, Thomas Kyd, The Spanish Tragedie

These be the scandalous reports of such / As loves not me, and hate my lord too much.

* 1887, Marie Corelli, Thelma

I always disregard gossip--it is generally scandalous , and seldom true.

*{{quote-news

, year=2012 , date=June 26 , author=Genevieve Koski , title=Music: Reviews: Justin Bieber: Believe , work=The Onion AV Club citation , page= , passage=The closest Believe gets to scandalous is on the deluxe-edition bonus track “Maria,” a response song to the woman who accused Bieber of fathering her child in 2011.}}

Adjective

(en adjective)

Disappointingly inadequate.

* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=April 22, author=Sam Sheringham, work=BBC Sport

, title= Liverpool 0-1 West Brom , passage=Liverpool's efforts thereafter had an air of desperation as their dismal 2012 league form continued.}}

Gloomy and bleak.

Depressing.

*, chapter=12

, title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=So, after a spell, he decided to make the best of it and shoved us into the front parlor. 'Twas a dismal sort of place, with hair wreaths, and wax fruit, and tin lambrekins, and land knows what all. It looked like a tomb and smelt pretty nigh as musty and dead-and-gone.}}