HOW TO PRONOUNCE
scandal
/ˈskændəl/
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What does scandal mean?
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.
More meanings (9)
noun
- A word or deed, lacking in rectitude in some manner, which is an occasion of the spiritual ruin of another.
- Defamatory talk; gossip, slander.
- amateur or homemade pornography
- (informal) commotion.
- Ellipsis of SCANDAL taxon (“a species or taxon which speciated due to the SCANDAL process”).
- Ellipsis of SCANDAL process (“the mechanism for speciation through cancer cells becoming independent of the originating creature, and living on”).
phrase
- Acronym of speciated by cancer development animals.
verb
- (obsolete) To defame; to slander.
- (obsolete) To scandalize; to offend.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈskændəl/
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We must not stain our page with any contemporary scandal, to a similar purport, that may have been whispered against the Judge.
“Then there is a scandal of some sort, and that’s what’s the matter with Thomasin. Was it this that made her ill?”
More book examples (3)
‘Thirdly, as people who cause scandal, and who, as is visible at the first glance, are prejudicial to morals and common decency.
If the garments are ragged or torn, you should be cautious in your conduct, as scandal is ready to attack your reputation.
It is, indeed, the secret scandal of Christendom, at least in the Protestant regions, that most men are faithful to their wives.