Definition of scandals Scandals
/skæˈndʌlz/ - [skandulz] -
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What does scandals mean?
Wiktionary 
- scandals (Noun)
Plural of scandal.
Part of speech
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NounPlural: scandals |
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| scandal - a disgraceful event | ||
| outrage | ||
| trouble an effort that is inconvenient; "I went to a lot of trouble"; "he won without any trouble"; "had difficulty walking"; "finished the test only with great difficulty" | ||
| skeleton in the closet, skeleton in the cupboard, skeleton the internal supporting structure that gives an artifact its shape; "the building has a steel skeleton" | ||
| scandal - disgraceful gossip about the private lives of other people | ||
| dirt, malicious gossip | ||
| scuttlebutt, comment, gossip a written explanation or criticism or illustration that is added to a book or other textual material; "he wrote an extended comment on the proposal" | ||
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Wiktionary
- scandal (Noun)
An incident or event that disgraces or damages the reputation of the persons or organization involved. - scandal (Noun)
Damage to one's reputation. - scandal (Noun)
Widespread moral outrage, indignation, as over an offence to decency. - scandal (Noun)
Religious discredit; an act or behaviour which brings a religion into discredit. - scandal (Noun)
Something which hinders acceptance of religious ideas or behaviour; a stumbling-block or offense. - scandal (Noun)
Defamatory talk; gossip, slander. - scandal (Verb)
To treat opprobriously; to defame; to slander. - scandal (Verb)
To scandalize; to offend.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- scandal (n.)
Offense caused or experienced; reproach or reprobation called forth by what is regarded as wrong, criminal, heinous, or flagrant: opprobrium or disgrace. - scandal (n.)
Reproachful aspersion; opprobrious censure; defamatory talk, uttered heedlessly or maliciously. - scandal (n.)
Anything alleged in pleading which is impertinent, and is reproachful to any person, or which derogates from the dignity of the court, or is contrary to good manners. - scandal (v. t.)
To treat opprobriously; to defame; to asperse; to traduce; to slander. - scandal (v. t.)
To scandalize; to offend.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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scandal
A widely publicized incident involving allegations of wrong-doing, disgrace, or moral outrage.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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scandal
skan′dal, n. something said which is false and injurious to reputation: disgrace: opprobrious censure.—v.t. to defame, to aspire.—ns. Scan′dal-bear′er, a propagator of malicious gossip; Scandalisā′tion, defamation.—v.t. Scan′dalise, to give scandal or offence to: to shock: to reproach: to disgrace: to libel.—n. Scan′dal-mong′er, one who deals in defamatory reports.—adj. Scan′dalous, giving scandal or offence: calling forth condemnation: openly vile: defamatory.—adv. Scan′dalously.—ns. Scan′dalousness; Scan′dalum-magnā′tum, speaking slanderously of high personages, abbrev. Scan. Mag. [Fr. scandale—L. scandalum—Gr. skandalon, a stumbling-block.]
Wikipedia 
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A scandal is a very public incident which involves a claim of wrong-doing, shame, or moral offence. A scandal may be about a real event, an untrue event (often called a false allegation) or a mixture of both.
Scandals may be told by whistleblowers, who have access to secrets and allow them to go public. A well-known scandal was the Watergate scandal, in which US President Richard Nixon was found to be supporting and hiding illegal burglaries. Untrue claims often lead to a loss of respect for that person, and can destroy their careers. Sometimes an attempt to cover up a scandal creates a bigger scandal when the cover-up does not succeed.
