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noun
An incident or event that disgraces or damages the reputation of the persons or organization involved.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Antonyms: none provided
noun
Damage to one's reputation.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Widespread moral outrage, indignation, as over an offence to decency.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A word or deed, lacking in rectitude in some manner, which is an occasion of the spiritual ruin of another.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: lifestyle, religion, theology
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Defamatory talk; gossip, slander.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Antonyms: none provided
noun
amateur or homemade pornography
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Philippines, colloquial, countable, uncountable
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noun
commotion.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Philippines, colloquial, countable, informal, uncountable
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noun
Ellipsis of SCANDAL taxon (“a species or taxon which speciated due to the SCANDAL process”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
Qualifier: evolution
Topics: biology, medicine, natural-sciences, pathology, sciences, taxonomy
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noun
Ellipsis of SCANDAL process (“the mechanism for speciation through cancer cells becoming independent of the originating creature, and living on”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
Qualifier: evolution
Topics: biology, medicine, natural-sciences, pathology, sciences, taxonomy
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phrase
Acronym of speciated by cancer development animals.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
Qualifier: evolution
Topics: biology, medicine, natural-sciences, pathology, sciences, taxonomy
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verb
To defame; to slander.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: denigrate, diss, traduce, assassinate, asperse, backbite, badmouth, befoul, belibel, besmirch, besmear, bewray, blacken, blame, blaze, blemish, blot, blur, calumniate, calumny, chat shit, chat shite, cloud, defame, demonize, deprave, depreciate, detract, dirty, discredit, disgrace, disparage, disrepute, drag through the mud, forgab, forspeak, foul, infamize, lampoon, libel, malign, monsterize, muddy, reproach, revile, scandal, shit-talk, slag, slander, smear, smirch, spatter, spot, speak ill of, stab, stain, sully, talk shit, talk shite, talk trash, tarnish, torch, trash-talk, unflatter, vilify, vilipend, villainize, wrong
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To scandalize; to offend.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: affront, insult, misbid, abuse, burn, carry, cut down, disrespect, dis, diss, give stick, heckle, hurt someone's feelings, lapidate, qualifier, misrespect, misuse, offend, send, scandal, scandalize, slag, slag off, sledge, slight, slur, sneap, spite, wound
Antonyms: none provided
noun
disgraceful gossip about the private lives of other people
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: dirt, malicious gossip
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: gossip, comment, scuttlebutt
noun
a disgraceful event
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: outrage
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: trouble
Narrower terms: skeleton, skeleton in the closet, skeleton in the cupboard, Teapot Dome, Teapot Dome scandal, Watergate, Watergate scandal
History
From Middle French scandale (“indignation caused by misconduct or defamatory speech”), from Ecclesiastical Latin scandalum (“that on which one trips, cause of offense”, literally “stumbling block”), from Ancient Greek σκάνδαλον (skándalon, “a trap laid for an enemy, a cause of moral stumbling”), from Proto-Indo-European *skand- (“to jump”). Cognate with Latin scandō (“to climb”). First attested from Old Northern French escandle, but the modern word is a reborrowing. Doublet, via Old French esclandre, of slander. Sense evolution from "cause of stumbling, that which causes one to sin, stumbling block" to "discredit to reputation, that which brings shame, thing of disgrace" is possibly due to early influence from other similar sounding words for infamy and disgrace (compare Old English scand (“ignominity, scandal, disgraceful thing”), Old High German scanda (“ignominy, disgrace”), Gothic 𐍃𐌺𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌰 (skanda, “shame, disgrace”)). See shand, shend, shonda.
Across languages
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