scandalous

adjective

1 it is scandalous that elderly patients should be treated in that way:

disgraceful, shocking, outrageous, monstrous, criminal, wicked, sinful, shameful, atrocious, appalling, terrible, dreadful, disgusting, abhorrent, despicable, deplorable, reprehensible, obscene, iniquitous, inexcusable, intolerable, insupportable, unforgivable, unpardonable;

rare egregious.

▷antonyms acceptable, praiseworthy.

2 a series of scandalous liaisons:

discreditable, disreputable, dishonorable, improper, unseemly, sordid.

▷antonyms seemly, proper.

3 she loved to spread scandalous rumors:

scurrilous, malicious, slanderous, libelous, defamatory;

rare calumnious, calumniatory, aspersive.