Definition of Scandal

Scandal

Offense caused or experienced; reproach or reprobation called forth by what is regarded as wrong, criminal, heinous, or flagrant: opprobrium or disgrace.

Reproachful aspersion; opprobrious censure; defamatory talk, uttered heedlessly or maliciously.

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.

To treat opprobriously; to defame; to asperse; to traduce; to slander.

To scandalize; to offend.

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You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal.
Elizabeth Taylor

A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings.
Thomas Fuller

They are at the end of the gallery; retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient custom.
William Congreve

I've never had a bank account in Switzerland since 1984. Why would the Swiss do this to me? Maybe the Swiss are trying to divert attention from the Holocaust gold scandal.
Benazir Bhutto

Your women of honor, as you call em, are only chary of their reputations, not their persons; and 'Tis scandal that they would avoid, not men.
William Wycherley

Longevity conquers scandal every time.
Shelby Foote

Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.
Josh Billings

It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
Moliere

Scandal begins when the police put a stop to it.
Karl Kraus

So after the Lewinsky scandal, everything changed, and we moved from using the Bible to address the moral issues of our time, which were social, to moral issues of our time that were very personal. I have continued that relationship up until the present.
Tony Campolo