scandal
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
scandal/ˈskandl/
▶noun an action or event regarded as morally or legally wrong and causing general public outrage.
■ outrage, rumour, or gossip arising from this.
– derivatives
scandalous adjective,
scandalously adverb,
scandalousness noun.
scandalous adjective,
scandalously adverb,
scandalousness noun.
– origin ME (in the sense ‘discredit to religion’): from OFr. scandale, from eccles. L. scandalum ‘cause of offence’, from Gk skandalon ‘snare, stumbling block’.
'scandal' also found in these Oxford entries:
blow
- breath
- deep throat
- dish
- -gate
- honest
- muckraking
- slander
- succès de scandale
- Teflon
