scandalously

1. 1.

   in a scandalous manner

   “you behaved scandalously when you walked out of that meeting!”

Questions about scandalously

What does scandalously mean?

scandalously means "in a scandalous manner".

How many syllables are in scandalously?

scandalously has 4 syllables and divides as scan-da-lou-sly under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is scandalously a common word?

scandalously is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.