scandal

IPA: skˈændʌɫ

An incident or event that disgraces or damages the reputation of the persons or organization involved.
Damage to one's reputation.
Widespread moral outrage, indignation, as over an offence to decency.
(theology) Religious discredit; an act or behaviour which brings a religion into discredit.
(theology) Something which hinders acceptance of religious ideas or behaviour; a stumbling-block or offense.
Defamatory talk; gossip, slander.
(Philippines, colloquial) amateur or homemade pornography.
(biology, evolution, taxonomy, pathology) Ellipsis of SCANDAL taxon; a species or taxon which speciated due to the SCANDAL process.
(biology, evolution, taxonomy, pathology) Ellipsis of SCANDAL process; the mechanism for speciation through cancer cells becoming independent of the originating creature, and living on.

Examples of "scandal" in Sentences

From this point forward, the word scandal will not appear.
The use of the word scandal in the sentence is a big mistake.
He wrote at a time when the word scandal applied to poverty, hunger, homelessness, and injustice.
Remember the Rush Limbaugh Party setting the bar for that? im surprised this time the scandal is a heterosexual one.