awful vs scandalous

awful

adj
  • Very bad. 

  • Exceedingly great; usually applied intensively. 

adv
  • Very, extremely. 

  • Awfully; dreadfully; terribly. 

scandalous

adj
  • Malicious, defamatory. 

  • Wrong, immoral, causing a scandal. 

  • Outrageous; exceeding reasonable limits. 

How often have the words awful and scandalous occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )