Nonscandal

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An incident that is not a scandal.

    "Little controversy followed, however, and the memory all but disappeared after Ms. Hill’s nonscandal — mouthing an angry “What?!” when a competitor won a prize — at the Country Music Association Awards six months later."

Example

More examples

"Little controversy followed, however, and the memory all but disappeared after Ms. Hill’s nonscandal — mouthing an angry “What?!” when a competitor won a prize — at the Country Music Association Awards six months later."

Etymology

From non- + scandal.

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.