Scandal vs Fraud - What's the difference?
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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.
Any act of deception carried out for the purpose of unfair, undeserved and/or unlawful gain.
* Alexander Pope
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A person who performs any such trick.
(obsolete) A trap or snare.
* Milton
In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between scandal and fraud
is that scandal is (obsolete) to scandalize; to offend while fraud is (obsolete) to defraud.As nouns the difference between scandal and fraud
is that scandal is an incident or event that disgraces or damages the reputation of the persons or organization involved while fraud is any act of deception carried out for the purpose of unfair, undeserved and/or unlawful gain.As verbs the difference between scandal and fraud
is that scandal is (obsolete) to treat opprobriously; to defame; to slander while fraud is (obsolete) to defraud.scandal
English
(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)
fraud
English
Noun
(en noun)- If success a lover's toil attends, / Few ask, if fraud or force attained his ends.
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.}}
- to draw the proud King Ahab into fraud