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Causing strong moral disapproval or appearing shockingly excessive.

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scandalous

The fictional columnist described the concealed payments as scandalous.
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Plagiarism occurs in a fictional design review when a columnist publishes another writer's original analysis as his own without acknowledging the source. The scandalous attempt to sell that borrowed analysis as proof of his personal expertise causes strong moral disapproval among the journal's contributors.
From A Review and Its Corrections.
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