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/ˈskændəl/ · 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.
O, what a scandal is it to our crown, That two such noble peers as ye should jar!
It would not be fair to record the adventures of Father Brown, without admitting that he was once involved in a grave scandal.
Well, yes, a couple of leaks are all very well, but it takes more than that... A big scandal perhaps. A political scandal. Or a scandal about something people really understand: Sex... or money.
But electric vehicles and the batteries that made them run became ensnared in corporate scandals, fraud, and monopolistic corruption that shook the confidence of the nation and inspired automotive upstarts.
The incident brought considerable scandal to his family.
Such a scandal as the prosecution of a brother for forgery—with a verdict of guilty—is a most truly horrible, deplorable, fatal thing. It takes the respectability out of a family perhaps at a critical moment, when the family is just assuming the robes of respectability:[…].
When their behaviour was made public it caused a great scandal.
Use scandal when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Scandal means An incident or event that disgraces or damages the reputation of the persons or organization involved..
Common synonyms include denigrate, diss, traduce, assassinate.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Their affair was reported as a scandal by most tabloids.
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