"You have a potentially scandalous situation here," he said.

Scribonia's image as a shrew is probably the product of propaganda to divert the potentially scandalous circumstances of her divorce from Augustus.

Even to stand here, speaking intimately with you in your shop, is potentially scandalous.

The asylum wants to keep this potentially scandalous situation out of the papers but informs the police.

Yet these characters are too sophisticated, even at such an early age, for that potentially scandalous kinship to make much difference to them.

They complain that it gratuitously rubs the community's nose in less-than-relevant but potentially scandalous moments in Mormon history.

Copywriter Victor Dean has died in a fall down the spiral iron office staircase, but he left a half-finished letter to the management hinting that something potentially scandalous is going on at Pym's.

The announcement suggested an embarrassing - and potentially scandalous - lapse of security by Georgian officials and the Secret Service.

Because of Kliman's zealous interest in a potentially scandalous secret from Lonoff's adolescence, neither Zuckerman nor Bellette wants to help him complete his project.

New York's elegant big spenders and institutions have always prided themselves on being able to socially embrace the new and potentially scandalous, whether it was "radical chic," the latest art craze or the twist.