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!

*{{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.

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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.

Noun

(en noun)

An incident or action standing out by itself, but more or less connected with a complete series of events.

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* {{quote-book, year=1935, author=

, chapter=10/6, title= The Norwich Victims , passage=The Attorney-General, however, had used this episode , which Martin in retrospect had felt to be a blot on the scutcheon, merely to emphasise the intelligence and resource of the prisoner.}}

An installment of a drama told in parts, as in a TV series.

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*{{quote-news, year=2012, date=May 20, author=Nathan Rabin

, title= TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Marge Gets A Job” (season 4, episode 7; originally aired 11/05/1992) , work=The Onion AV Club , passage=We all know how genius “Kamp Krusty,” “A Streetcar Named Marge,” “Homer The Heretic,” “Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie” and “Mr. Plow” are, but even the relatively unheralded episodes offer wall-to-wall laughs and some of the smartest, darkest, and weirdest gags ever Trojan-horsed into a network cartoon with a massive family audience.}}