scandal
IPA: skˈændʌɫ
noun
- 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.
verb
- (obsolete) To to defame; to slander.
- (obsolete) To scandalize; to offend.
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Examples of "scandal" in Sentences
- The Nation shrugs about the scandal.
- This scandal is particularly galling.
- Gossip is the fodder of scandal sheets.
- Did the Breedlove scandal sidetrack him
- The article predates the alleged scandal.
- The scandal was about the story of a man.
- The actor was impenitent with the scandal.
- They want to scandalize and make a splash.
- As such, he was considered scandalous and seditious.
- As it stands, the suitcase scandal dominates the article.
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