Definition of Scandal

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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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Scandal Quotations

Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.
Josh Billings

When I go to Rome, I fast on Saturday, but in Milan I do not. Do you also follow the custom of whatever church you attend, if you do not want to give or receive scandal.
Saint Ambrose

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

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

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

Scandal is an importunate wasp, against which we must make no movement unless we are quite sure that we can kill it; otherwise it will return to the attack more furious than ever.
Nicolas de Chamfort

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

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

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

Scandal Translations

scandal in Afrikaans is aanstoot, skandaal
scandal in Dutch is achterklap, eerroof, laster
scandal in French is scandale, chambard
scandal in German is Skandal
scandal in Italian is scandalo

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