Thesaurus: scandal

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1. n. Offense caused or experienced; reproach or reprobation called forth by what is regarded as wrong, criminal, heinous, or flagrant: opprobrium or disgrace.
2. n. Reproachful aspersion; opprobrious censure; defamatory talk, uttered heedlessly or maliciously.
3. n. Anything alleged in pleading which is impertinent, and is reproachful to any person, or which derogates from the dignity of the court, or is contrary to good manners.
4. v. t. To treat opprobriously; to defame; to asperse; to traduce; to slander.
5. v. t. To scandalize; to offend.
6. n. disgraceful gossip about the private lives of other people
7. n. a disgraceful event
8. Anything alleged in pleading which is impertinent, and isreproachful to any person, or which derogates from the dignity of thecourt, or is contrary to good manners. Daniell.
9. n:100 n. disgraceful gossip about the private lives of other people n. a disgraceful event