scandal - English dictionary definition

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Scandal Offense caused or experienced; reproach or reprobation called forth by what is regarded as wrong, criminal, heinous, or flagrant: opprobrium or disgrace.
Scandal Reproachful aspersion; opprobrious censure; defamatory talk, uttered heedlessly or maliciously.
Scandal 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.
Scandal To treat opprobriously; to defame; to asperse; to traduce; to slander.
Scandal To scandalize; to offend.
scandal disgraceful gossip about the private lives of other people