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Scandal
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- 1 An incident or event that disgraces or damages the reputation of the persons or organization involved. countable, uncountable
"Their affair was reported as a scandal by most tabloids."
- 2 Ellipsis of SCANDAL taxon (“a species or taxon which speciated due to the SCANDAL process”). abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
- 3 disgraceful gossip about the private lives of other people wordnet
- 4 Damage to one's reputation. countable, uncountable
"The incident brought considerable scandal to his family."
- 5 Ellipsis of SCANDAL process (“the mechanism for speciation through cancer cells becoming independent of the originating creature, and living on”). abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
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- 6 a disgraceful event wordnet
- 7 Widespread moral outrage, indignation, as over an offence to decency. countable, uncountable
"When their behaviour was made public it caused a great scandal."
- 8 A word or deed, lacking in rectitude in some manner, which is an occasion of the spiritual ruin of another. countable, uncountable
- 9 Defamatory talk; gossip, slander. countable, uncountable
"According to village scandal, they weren't even married."
- 10 amateur or homemade pornography; (informal) commotion. Philippines, colloquial, countable, uncountable
- 1 Acronym of speciated by cancer development animals. abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
- 1 To defame; to slander. obsolete
"I do fawn on men and hug them hard And after scandal them."
- 2 To scandalize; to offend. obsolete
"A propensity to scandal may partly proceed from an inability to distinguish the proper objects of censure"
Etymology
From Middle French scandale (“indignation caused by misconduct or defamatory speech”), from Ecclesiastical Latin scandalum (“that on which one trips, cause of offense”, literally “stumbling block”), from Ancient Greek σκάνδαλον (skándalon, “a trap laid for an enemy, a cause of moral stumbling”), from Proto-Indo-European *skand- (“to jump”). Cognate with Latin scandō (“to climb”). First attested from Old Northern French escandle, but the modern word is a reborrowing. Doublet, via Old French esclandre, of slander. Sense evolution from "cause of stumbling, that which causes one to sin, stumbling block" to "discredit to reputation, that which brings shame, thing of disgrace" is possibly due to early influence from other similar sounding words for infamy and disgrace (compare Old English scand (“ignominity, scandal, disgraceful thing”), Old High German scanda (“ignominy, disgrace”), Gothic 𐍃𐌺𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌰 (skanda, “shame, disgrace”)). See shand, shend, shonda.
From Middle French scandale (“indignation caused by misconduct or defamatory speech”), from Ecclesiastical Latin scandalum (“that on which one trips, cause of offense”, literally “stumbling block”), from Ancient Greek σκάνδαλον (skándalon, “a trap laid for an enemy, a cause of moral stumbling”), from Proto-Indo-European *skand- (“to jump”). Cognate with Latin scandō (“to climb”). First attested from Old Northern French escandle, but the modern word is a reborrowing. Doublet, via Old French esclandre, of slander. Sense evolution from "cause of stumbling, that which causes one to sin, stumbling block" to "discredit to reputation, that which brings shame, thing of disgrace" is possibly due to early influence from other similar sounding words for infamy and disgrace (compare Old English scand (“ignominity, scandal, disgraceful thing”), Old High German scanda (“ignominy, disgrace”), Gothic 𐍃𐌺𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌰 (skanda, “shame, disgrace”)). See shand, shend, shonda.
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