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Definition of Scandal
1. Noun. Disgraceful gossip about the private lives of other people.
Generic synonyms: Comment, Gossip, Scuttlebutt
Derivative terms: Scandalise, Scandalize
2. Noun. A disgraceful event.
Generic synonyms: Trouble
Specialized synonyms: Skeleton, Skeleton In The Closet, Skeleton In The Cupboard
Specialized synonyms: Teapot Dome, Teapot Dome Scandal, Watergate, Watergate Scandal
Derivative terms: Outrage, Outrageous, Scandalise, Scandalize, Scandalous
Definition of Scandal
1. n. Offense caused or experienced; reproach or reprobation called forth by what is regarded as wrong, criminal, heinous, or flagrant: opprobrium or disgrace.
2. v. t. To treat opprobriously; to defame; to asperse; to traduce; to slander.
Definition of Scandal
1. to defame [v -DALED, -DALING, -DALS or -DALLED, -DALLING, -DALS] - See also: defame
Medical Definition of Scandal
1. 1. Offense caused or experienced; reproach or reprobation called forth by what is regarded as wrong, criminal, heinous, or flagrant: opprobrium or disgrace. "O, what a scandal is it to our crown, That two such noble peers as ye should jar!" (Shak) "[I] have brought scandal To Israel, diffidence of God, and doubt In feeble hearts." (Milton) 2. Reproachful aspersion; opprobrious censure; defamatory talk, uttered heedlessly or maliciously. "You must not put another scandal on him." (Shak) "My known virtue is from scandal free." (Dryden) 3. 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. Synonym: Defamation, detraction, slander, calumny, opprobrium, reproach, shame, disgrace. Origin: F. Scandale, fr. L. Scandalum, Gr, a snare laid for an enemy, a stumbling block, offense, scandal: cf. OE. Scandle, OF. Escandle. See Slander. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
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