Abuse vs Scandal - What's the difference?
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Improper treatment or usage; application to a wrong or bad purpose; an unjust, corrupt or wrongful practice or custom.
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Misuse; improper use; perversion.
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(obsolete) A delusion; an imposture; misrepresentation; deception.
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Coarse, insulting speech; abusive language; language that unjustly or angrily vilifies.
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(now, rare) Catachresis.
Physical maltreatment; injury; cruel treatment.
Violation; defilement; rape; forcing of undesired sexual activity by one person on another, often on a repeated basis.
To put to a wrong use; to misapply; to use improperly; to misuse; to use for a wrong purpose or end; to pervert; as, to abuse one's authority.
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To injure; to maltreat; to hurt; to treat with cruelty, especially repeatedly.
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To attack with coarse language; to insult; to revile; malign; to speak in an offensive manner to or about someone; to disparage.
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To imbibe a drug for a purpose other than it was intended; to intentionally take more of a drug than was prescribed for recreational reasons; to take illegal drugs habitually.
(archaic) To violate; defile; to rape.
(obsolete) Misrepresent; adulterate.
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(obsolete) To deceive; to trick; to impose on; misuse the confidence of.
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(transitive, obsolete, Scotland) Disuse.
An incident or event that disgraces or damages the reputation of the persons or organization involved.
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*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
*:O, what a scandal is it to our crown, / That two such noble peers as ye should jar!
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*:Such a scandal as the prosecution of a brother for forgery—with a verdict of guilty—is a most truly horrible, deplorable, fatal thing. It takes the respectability out of a family perhaps at a critical moment, when the family is just assuming the robes of respectability:.
Widespread moral outrage, indignation, as over an offence to decency.
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(lb) Religious discredit; an act or behaviour which brings a religion into discredit.
(lb) Something which hinders acceptance of religious ideas or behaviour; a stumbling-block or offense.
Defamatory talk; gossip, slander.
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*1855 , Anthony Trollope, The Warden ,
*:Scandal' at Barchester affirmed that had it not been for the beauty of his daughter, Mr. Harding would have remained a minor canon; but here probably '''Scandal''' lied, as she so often does; for even as a minor canon no one had been more popular among his reverend brethren in the close, than Mr. Harding; and ' Scandal , before she had reprobated Mr. Harding for being made precentor by his friend the bishop, had loudly blamed the bishop for having so long omitted to do something for his friend Mr. Harding.
(obsolete) To treat opprobriously; to defame; to slander.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) To scandalize; to offend.
Abuse is a related term of scandal.
As verbs the difference between abuse and scandal
is that abuse is while scandal is (obsolete) to treat opprobriously; to defame; to slander.As a noun scandal is
an incident or event that disgraces or damages the reputation of the persons or organization involved.abuse
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) abusen, then from either (etyl)Noun
(en noun)- All abuse , whether physical, verbal, psychological or sexual, is bad.
- Liberty may be endangered by the abuses' of liberty, as well as by the ' abuses of power.
citation, passage=Few concepts are as emotionally charged as that of race. The word conjures up a mixture of associations—culture, ethnicity, genetics, subjugation, exclusion and persecution. But is the tragic history of efforts to define groups of people by race really a matter of the misuse of science, the abuse of a valid biological concept?}}
Usage notes
* Typically followed by the word of .Synonyms
* invective, contumely, reproach, scurrility, insult, opprobriumDerived terms
* abusefully * abuse of distress * alcohol abuse * child abuse * drug abuse * self-abuseVerb
(abus)- The tellers of news abused the general.
- (Spenser)
- When Cyrus had espied Astyages and his fellows coming drunk from a banquet loaden with variety of follies and filthiness, their legs failing them, their eyes red and staring, cozened with a moist cloud and abused by a double object
Synonyms
* maltreat, injure, revile, reproach, vilify, vituperate, asperse, traduce, malign * See alsoDerived terms
* abusable * abusage * abuserAnagrams
* English heteronyms ----scandal
English
(wikipedia scandal)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=But electric vehicles and the batteries that made them run became ensnared in corporate scandals , fraud, and monopolistic corruption that shook the confidence of the nation and inspired automotive upstarts.}}
Our banks are out of control, passage=Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic
Derived terms
* scandalize * scandalization * scandalmonger * scandal of particularity * scandalous * scandalousness * scandal sheetVerb
- I do fawn on men and hug them hard / And after scandal them.
- (Bishop Story)
