scandal
noun
1 scandal
Disgraceful gossip about the private lives of other people.
synonyms: dirt, malicious gossip.
Roget 945:
vice;
evil-doing,
evil courses;
wrongdoing;
wickedness,
viciousness
etc.
adj.;
iniquity,
peccability†,
demerit;
sin,
Adam†;
old Adam†,
offending Adam†.
immorality,
impropriety,
indecorum,
scandal,
laxity,
looseness of morals;
enphagy†,
dophagy†,
exophagy†;
want of principle,
want of ballast;
obliquity,
backsliding,
infamy,
demoralization,
pravity†,
depravity,
pollution;
hardness of heart;
brutality
etc.
(malevolence)
907;
corruption
etc.
(debasement)
659;
knavery
etc.
(improbity)
940†;
profligacy;
flagrancy,
atrocity;
cannibalism;
lesbianism,
Sadism.
infirmity;
weakness
etc.
adj.;
weakness of the flesh,
frailty,
imperfection;
error;
weak side;
foible;
failing,
failure;
crying sin,
besetting sin;
defect,
deficiency;
cloven foot.
lowest dregs of vice,
sink of iniquity,
Alsatian den†;
gusto picaresco [It].
fault,
crime;
criminality
etc.
(guilt)
947.
sinner
etc.
949.
[Resorts]
brothel
etc.
961;
gambling house
etc.
621;
joint [Slang],
opium den,
shooting gallery,
crack house.
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Roget 532:
news;
information
etc.
527;
piece of news [Fr.],
budget of news,
budget of information;
intelligence,
tidings.
word,
advice,
aviso [Sp.],
message;
dispatch,
despatch;
telegram,
cable,
marconigram†,
wire,
communication,
errand,
embassy.
report,
rumor,
hearsay,
on dit [Fr.],
flying rumor,
news stirring,
cry,
buzz,
bruit,
fame;
talk,
oui dire [Fr.],
scandal,
eavesdropping;
town tattle,
table talk;
tittle tattle;
canard,
topic of the day,
idea afloat.
bulletin,
fresh news,
stirring news;
glad tidings;
flash,
news just in;
on-the-spot coverage;
live coverage.
old story,
old news,
stale news,
stale story;
chestnut [Slang].
narrator
etc.
(describe)
594;
newsmonger,
scandalmonger;
talebearer,
telltale,
gossip,
tattler.
[study of news reporting]
journalism.
[methods of conveying news]
media,
news media,
the press,
the information industry;
newspaper,
magazine,
tract,
journal,
gazette,
publication
etc.
531;
radio,
television,
ticker
(electronic information transmission).
[organizations producing news reports]
[methods of conveying news]
United Press International,
UPI;
Associated Press,
AP;
The Dow Jones News Service,
DJ;
The New York Times News Service,
NYT;
Reuters [Brit.];
TASS [Rus.];
The Nikkei [Jap.].
[person reporting news as a profession]
newscaster,
newsman,
newswoman,
reporter,
journalist,
correspondent,
foreign correspondent,
special correspondent,
war correspondent,
news team,
news department;
anchorman,
anchorwoman†;
sportscaster;
weatherman.
[officials providing news for an organization]
press secretary,
public relations department,
public relations man.
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Roget 874:
disrepute,
discredit;
ill repute,
bad repute,
bad name,
bad odor,
bad favor,
ill name,
ill odor,
ill favor;
disapprobation
etc.
932;
ingloriousness,
derogation;
abasement,
debasement;
abjectness
etc.
adj.;
degradation,
dedecoration†;
a long farewell to all my greatness
[Henry VIII];
odium,
obloquy,
opprobrium,
ignominy.
dishonor,
disgrace;
shame,
humiliation;
scandal,
baseness,
vileness†;
turpitude
etc.
(improbity)
940†;
infamy.
tarnish,
taint,
defilement,
pollution.
stain,
blot,
spot,
blur,
stigma,
brand,
reproach,
imputation,
slur.
crying shame,
burning shame;
scandalum magnatum [Lat.],
badge of infamy,
blot in one's escutcheon;
bend sinister,
bar sinister;
champain†,
point champain†;
byword of reproach;
Ichabod.
argumentum ad verecundiam [Lat.];
sense of shame
etc.
879.
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Roget 934:
detraction,
disparagement,
depreciation,
vilification,
obloquy,
scurrility,
scandal,
defamation,
aspersion,
traducement,
slander,
calumny,
obtrectation†,
evil-speaking,
backbiting,
scandalum magnatum [Lat.].
personality,
libel,
lampoon,
skit,
pasquinade;
chronique scandaleuse [Fr.];
roorback [U.S.].
sarcasm,
cynicism;
criticism
(disapprobation)
932;
invective
etc.
932;
envenomed tongue;
spretae injuria formae [Lat.].
personality,
libel,
lampoon,
skit,
pasquinade;
chronique scandaleuse [Fr.];
roorback [U.S.].
detractor
etc.
936.
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Roget 938:
accusation,
charge,
imputation,
slur,
inculpation,
exprobration†,
delation;
crimination;
incrimination,
accrimination†,
recrimination;
tu quoque argument [Lat.];
invective
etc.
932.
denunciation,
denouncement;
libel,
challenge,
citation,
arraignment;
impeachment,
appeachment†;
indictment,
bill of indictment,
true bill;
lawsuit
etc.
969;
condemnation
etc.
971.
gravamen of a charge,
head and front of one's offending,
argumentum ad hominem [Lat.];
scandal
etc.
(detraction)
934;
scandalum magnatum [Lat.].
accuser,
prosecutor,
plaintiff;
relator,
informer;
appellant.
accused,
defendant,
prisoner,
perpetrator,
panel,
respondent;
litigant.
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Dutch: geroddel, smeerlapperij
2 scandal
A disgraceful event.
synonym: outrage.
Dutch: schandaal
Polish: afera, awantura, chryja, granda, skandal
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