Noun

(en noun)

(uncountable) The state of contemning; the feeling or attitude of regarding someone or something as inferior, base, or worthless; scorn, disdain.

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, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes. He said that if you wanted to do anything for them, you must rule them, not pamper them.}}

The state of being despised or dishonored; disgrace.

(legal) Open disrespect or willful disobedience of the authority of a court of law or legislative body.

Noun

(en noun)

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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Damage to one's reputation.

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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.