[Ads-l] Scandalize VW

[Geoffrey Steven Nathan]

Today's Detroit Free Press reports (in a headline)


'Scandalized VW to fix, buy or pay owners for cars' (Page A8)


Apparently they mean something like 'touched by scandal'. This is apparently an old use (according to the OED it is ' Obs. exc. poet.').


Geoff



     
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