scandal
Pronunciation: /ˈskændəl/
The English word “scandal” has 9 meanings listed here.
noun
- An incident or event that disgraces or damages the reputation of the persons or organization involved.
- Damage to one's reputation.
- Widespread moral outrage, indignation, as over an offence to decency.
- A word or deed, lacking in rectitude in some manner, which is an occasion of the spiritual ruin of another.
- Defamatory talk; gossip, slander.
- amateur or homemade pornography
- commotion.
verb
- To defame; to slander.
- To scandalize; to offend.
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…
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