scandal
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2.8
- noun
- /ˈskændl/
- Literature
:
escándalo
- The politician resigned after a scandal involving bribery was exposed.
- corruption scandal
- sex scandal
- the scandal broke
Then you have massive scandal with Prince Andrew.
- Then you have massive scandal with Prince Andrew.
- The only person bigger than Flynn in this scandal is Donald Trump.
- And just a pension that's been riddled with scandal for decades now.
- There's been a recent scandal in the Sackler, Phillip.
- So can you describe the EV cheating scandal that you're helping to uncover?
- I don't know if you remember the Brett Favre scandal, which was a welfare scam.
- Got into a scandal with Barack Obama.
- Today, Virginia had its third blackface scandal in a week.
- For the Third Republic, this will be the political scandal known as the Stavisky Affair.
- Now, this is by no means the first scandal in the market for carbon credits.
- The charismatic boss who gets caught in a scandal and everyone is surprised.
- See, the recently the largest college admissions scandal ever was uncovered.
- He did really good reporting on the plagiarism scandal at Harvard.
- This is a damning, corroborated scandal for Trump with only one possible result.
- But now it has re blossomed into an ongoing national scandal that we're calling Applegate.
Examples
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Last year's financial scandal revealed widespread corruption in the company.
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I wonder if there was any scandal connected with this.
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Finally, she said, "There may be a scandal involved in this matter, you know."
Fiction book (1998) -
Now, this is by no means the first scandal in the market for carbon credits.
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But two individuals reveal perhaps the most significant spy scandal in history.
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There was the Enron scandal, which likewise had clear causes and clear effects.
Academic text (2008) -
After the election, the Watergate scandal gradually overwhelmed the Nixon White House.
Academic text (1991) -
He did really good reporting on the plagiarism scandal at Harvard.
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The celebrity was at the center of a scandal that shocked her fans and the media.
Synonyms
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3.5
A shocking action that makes people very angry
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9.3
An event like a trial that gets a lot of public attention because people strongly disagree about it
Antonyms
Compounds
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3.9
A 1970s US political event where leaders broke the law and the president resigned
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7.9
A large United States political corruption case in the early 1920s where government officials secretly leased oil land to companies
- Literature
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3.4
A public event where a famous person does something shocking that many people talk about
- Australian
Public controversy in Australia about a computer system that wrongly said people owed welfare money
How Scandalous
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3.5
- Literature
564
2.8
117
3.7
465
4.9
38
7.3
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word scandal comes from the old Greek word skandalon, meaning 'trap' or 'stumbling block'. So a scandal is an action or event that shocks people and makes a person or organization 'stumble', losing trust and causing public outrage.