Insult vs Scandal - What's the difference?
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(obsolete) To behave in an obnoxious and superior manner (over, against).
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To offend (someone) by being rude, insensitive or insolent; to demean or affront (someone).
(obsolete) To leap or trample upon; to make a sudden onset upon.
An action or form of speech deliberately intended to be rude.
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* 1987 , Jamie Lee Curtis, A Fish Called Wanda :
Anything that causes offence/offense, e.g. by being of an unacceptable quality.
(medicine) Something causing disease or injury to the body or bodily processes.
* 2006 , Stephen G. Lomber, Jos J. Eggermont, Reprogramming the Cerebral Cortex (page 415)
* 2011 , Terence Allen and Graham Cowling, The Cell: A Very Short Introduction , Oxford 2011, p. 96:
(obsolete) The act of leaping on; onset; attack.
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.
Insult is a related term of scandal.
In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between insult and scandal
is that insult is (obsolete) the act of leaping on; onset; attack while scandal is (obsolete) to scandalize; to offend.As verbs the difference between insult and scandal
is that insult is (obsolete|intransitive) to behave in an obnoxious and superior manner (over, against) while scandal is (obsolete) to treat opprobriously; to defame; to slander.As nouns the difference between insult and scandal
is that insult is an action or form of speech deliberately intended to be rude while scandal is an incident or event that disgraces or damages the reputation of the persons or organization involved.insult
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Verb
(en verb)- thou hast lost all, poor thou art, dejected, in pain of body, grief of mind, thine enemies insult over thee, thou art as bad as Job […].
- (Shakespeare)
Synonyms
* (to offend) abuse, affront, offend, slight * See alsoAntonyms
*complimentNoun
(en noun)- the ruthless sneer that insult adds to grief
- To call you stupid would be an insult to stupid people!
- The way the orchestra performed tonight was an insult to my ears.
- Within the complex genome of most organisms there are alternative multiple pathways of proteins which can help the individual cell survive a variety of insults , for example radiation, toxic chemicals, heat, excessive or reduced oxygen.
- (Dryden)
Synonyms
* (deliberatedly intended to be rude) abuse (uncountable), affront, offence (UK)/offense (US), pejorative, slam, slight, slur * (thing causing offence by being of unacceptable quality) disgrace, outrage * See alsoAntonyms
*complimentAnagrams
* * English heteronymsscandal
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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.
- (Bishop Story)
