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!

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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)

A low soft shoe that can be slipped on and off easily.

Such a shoe intended for indoor use; a bedroom or house slipper.

Get out of bed, put on your slippers , and come downstairs.

A flip-flop (type of rubber sandal).

A person who slips.

* 1955 , , Sobriety and Beyond , Hazelden Publishing (1997), ISBN 978-1-56838-242-5, page 130:

He is a frequent “slipper ,” but doesn’t seem to have sufficient intelligence upon which to ever build permanent sobriety and happiness.

* 1995 , Russ McDonald, “Sex, Lies, and Shakespearean Drama”, in Jeanne Addison Roberts (editor), part one of Peggy O’Brien (editor), Shakespeare Set Free: Teaching ''Twelfth Night'' and Othello, Simon and Schuster, ISBN 978-0-671-76047-2, page 3:

Virtually all human action is liable to opposing interpretations, depending mainly upon distance: to take the familiar case of the banana peel, the fall is painful to the slipper , hilarious to the spectator across the street.

* 2001 , Barry M. Levenson, Habeas Codfish: Reflections on Food and the Law , University of Wisconsin Press, ISBN 978-0-299-17510-8, page 7:

Slipping on a banana peel does not mean big bucks for the “slipper ” if the “slippee” has a good law firm representing it.

A kind of apron or pinafore for children.

A kind of brake or shoe for a wagon wheel.

(engineering) A piece, usually a plate, applied to a sliding piece, to receive wear and permit adjustment; a gib.

A form of corporal punishment where the buttocks are repeatedly struck with a plimsoll; "the slipper".

* 1981 , Andrew Loudon, Staffroom mole leaks secret of his school's beatings book , Daily Mail and General Trust, World Corporal Punishment Research

"Mrs Marlene Foster , an opponent of the slipper, said her son Gary had a bottom "as red as a beetroot" after he was punished for writing on desks. "

The plimsoll or gym shoe used in this form of punishment.

* 2004 , James Morgan, Stretching Forward to Learn , World Corporal Punishment Research

"All teachers had what was referred to as a 'slipper', but in reality was a cut down gym shoe designed for smacking our bottoms."