Scandal (EP)
WordNet
noun
(1) Disgraceful gossip about the private lives of other people
(2) A disgraceful event
WiktionaryText
Etymology
From Old Northern French escandle, from ecclesiastical scandalum, from Ancient σκάνδαλον (skandalon).
Noun
- An incident or event that disgraces or damages the reputation of the persons or organization involved.
- Their affair was reported as a scandal by most tabloids.
- Damage to one's reputation.
- The incident brought considerable scandal to his family.
- Wide-spread moral outrage, indignation, as over an offence to decency.
- When their behaviour was made public it caused a great scandal.
- Religious discredit; an act or behaviour which brings a religion into discredit.
- Something which hinders acceptance of religious ideas or behaviour; a stumbling-block or offense.
- Defamatory talk; gossip, slander.
- According to village scandal, they weren't even married.