Disrepute vs Scandal - What's the difference?
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Loss or want of reputation; ill character; disesteem; discredit.
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* Sir Walter Scott
To bring into disreputation; to hold in dishonor.
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.
As nouns the difference between disrepute and scandal
is that disrepute is loss or want of reputation; ill character; disesteem; discredit while scandal is an incident or event that disgraces or damages the reputation of the persons or organization involved.As verbs the difference between disrepute and scandal
is that disrepute is to bring into disreputation; to hold in dishonor while scandal is to treat opprobriously; to defame; to slander.disrepute
English
Noun
(-)- Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get; what you get is classical alpha-taxonomy which is, very largely and for sound reasons, in disrepute today.
- At the beginning of the eighteenth century astrology fell into general disrepute .
Verb
(disreput)Anagrams
*scandal
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(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.
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