1 [C,U] behaviour or an event that people think is morally or legally wrong and causes public feelings of shock or anger:
a series of sex scandals * to cause / create a scandal * The scandal broke (= became known to the public) in 1998. * There has been no hint of scandal during his time in office. * a promising career wrecked by scandal
2 [U] talk or reports about the shocking or immoral things that people have done or are thought to have done:
to spread scandal * newspapers full of scandal
3 [sing.] ~ (that...) an action, attitude, etc. that you think is shocking and not at all acceptable:
It is a scandal that such a large town has no orchestra.
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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This entry for scandal is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is scandal a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, scandal is tagged as noun.
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