0 present participle of scandalize --
1 If you are scandalized by someone's behaviour, you disapprove of it and are shocked by it because you think it is against moral laws: --
Schoenbergs scandalizing concerts 1907 and 1908.
One day when he spoke on total renunciation, condemning the love for transient worldly things, some of his reactionary students began to indulge in scandalizing the verity of his speech.
The defences of justification and fair comment are not applicable to the offence of scandalizing the court.
Thus, it is scandalizing the court to allege that it can be swayed by external pressures and made servile to others.
Lastly, it is also assumed that public confidence in the judiciary can be preserved by the suppression of scandalizing speech.
These cases identified the protection of public confidence in the administration of justice as the aim of the offence of scandalizing contempt.
The opposition reached the degree of banning the film and scandalizing it which paradoxically made it one of the landmarks in the history of film.
Scandalizing the court is an example of the first category.