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Lithe vs Scandal - What's the difference?

lithe | scandal |

In obsolete terms the difference between lithe and scandal

is that lithe is mild; calm while scandal is to scandalize; to offend.

As an adjective lithe

is mild; calm.

lithe

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) lithen, from (etyl) . See also (l), (l).

Verb

  • (obsolete) To go.

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) lithe, from (etyl) .

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (obsolete) Mild; calm.
    • ''lithe weather
  • slim but not skinny
    • lithe body
  • *
    • She was frankly disappointed. For some reason she had thought to discover a burglar of one or another accepted type—either a dashing cracksman in full-blown evening dress, lithe , polished, pantherish, or a common yegg, a red-eyed, unshaven burly brute in the rags and tatters of a tramp.
  • Capable of being easily bent; pliant; flexible; limber
    • the elephant’s lithe proboscis.
  • * 1861 , , page 125
    • … she danced with a kind of passionate fierceness, her lithe body undulating with flexuous grace …
    Synonyms
    * lithesome, lissome,

    Etymology 3

    From (etyl) lithen, from (etyl) .

    Verb

    (head)
  • (obsolete) To become calm.
  • (obsolete) To make soft or mild; soften; alleviate; mitigate; lessen; smooth; palliate.

    • Etymology 4

    From (etyl) lithen, from (etyl) . More at (l).

    Verb

    (lith)
  • (obsolete) To give ear; attend; listen.
  • To listen to.

    • Etymology 5

    Origin uncertain; perhaps an alteration of (lewth).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Scotland) Shelter.
  • * 1932 , (Lewis Grassic Gibbon), Sunset Song :
    • So Cospatric got him the Pict folk to build a strong castle there in the lithe of the hills, with the Grampians dark and bleak behind it, and he had the Den drained and he married a Pict lady and got on her bairns and he lived there till he died.

    Anagrams

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    scandal

    English

    (wikipedia scandal)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An incident or event that disgraces or damages the reputation of the persons or organization involved.
  • :
  • *(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
  • *:O, what a scandal is it to our crown, / That two such noble peers as ye should jar!
  • *{{quote-book, year=2006, author=(Edwin Black), title=Internal Combustion
    • , chapter=1 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.}}
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-28, author=(Joris Luyendijk)
    • , volume=189, issue=3, page=21, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Our banks are out of control , passage=Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic
  • Damage to one's reputation.
  • :
  • *
  • *: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.
  • :
  • (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.
  • :
  • *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.

    • Derived terms

    * scandalize * scandalization * scandalmonger * scandal of particularity * scandalous * scandalousness * scandal sheet

    Verb

  • (obsolete) To treat opprobriously; to defame; to slander.
  • * Shakespeare
    • I do fawn on men and hug them hard / And after scandal them.
  • (obsolete) To scandalize; to offend.
    • (Bishop Story)
    (Webster 1913)