SCANDAL


Meaning of SCANDAL in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

doping scandal/ban/test etc

doping offences

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

big

The loss of this basic perspective produces the worst problems and the biggest scandal .

financial

Melancia, who had been appointed to the post in mid-1987, had been implicated in a financial scandal in February 1990.

His wife did not help, with her loquacity and her relatives' involvement in major financial scandals .

But the succession of financial scandals involving the president in recent months has discredited the office of president.

But he was also involved in a high-profile financial scandal and a messy divorce.

At the same time, two financial scandals have damaged the government's credibility.

Yet the world's leading democracies are all mired in financial scandals .

That post bellum decade was ushered in by financial scandals , bank panics and a restructuring of the financial system.

Recent financial scandals involving the use of tax havens have also led to calls for anti-tax haven legislation.

great

If the Radnor Walk horror becomes public it would be the greatest scandal in the history of the Service.

Unaccountably, the Opposition have not requested a statement on one of the great scandals involving Robert Maxwell.

ill

But the worst of the scandal is that all the wrong conclusions are being drawn from it.

Wednesday in the aftermath of one of the worst military scandals to erupt in public here in recent history.

Lord knows, there are worse scandals that have unfolded behind those stately white columns.

major

She prided herself on her ability to sift through the most innocent conversations and turn them into major scandals .

Four of the five saw their administrations marred by major scandals .

Gone, it seems, are the days when rock stars caused major scandals by being caught with dangerous drugs.

No president since Nixon leaves office so synonymous with a major scandal .

His wife did not help, with her loquacity and her relatives' involvement in major financial scandals .

Throughout its history, the Federal Reserve has handled billions of dollars a day, cleanly and without a major scandal .

Political contributions that would have been major scandals in the United States have generated only minor controversies.

national

One incident last September became a national scandal .

political

Royal secrets, political scandal and life after Norm - the not so Everage housewife-turned-megastar from Down Under gets intimate.

Watergate, the political scandal that so motivated these young people, is 25 years old this year.

However, a political scandal forced his resignation on July 6.

Recent political scandals have tended to fall into the same dreary pattern: shocking accusation.

Basically, the public has grown weary of a party that has seen its share of political sleaze scandals .

As the Whitewater mess gets even messier, the Clintons seem to have accomplished something new in the annals of political scandals .

public

The evidence is, in the case of corporate crime, that nothing much happens by way of public scandal and social ruin.

Personal secrets have turned into public issues and, with increasing frequency, public scandals .

Only the occasional public scandal , such as the attempt to sell the Mappa Mundi at Hereford Cathedral, disturbs the calm.

He couldn't afford a public scandal amongst the Party leadership.

If there's any public scandal about our marriage it will destroy me and all my work.

recent

The evidence of recent insider dealer scandals refutes the strong form of efficiency.

Using inside knowledge gained from twenty years in the industry she shows how recent scandals could have been avoided.

■ NOUN

bribery

Tomás Rodríguez were currently under investigation for their part in bribery scandals involving air force contracts.

This should last until bribery scandals had been investigated and proper environmental standards enforced, they said.

corruption

A dozen of the company's senior executives have been caught up in the country's ever-widening corruption scandal .

That's why these corruption scandals deserve our attention.

The government has been plagued by repeated corruption scandals .

However, the most disturbing corruption scandals have concerned not politicians but sportsmen.

One idea is to revive a bill put forward in 1991, in the wake of a previous corruption scandal .

Air Force corruption scandal Brig. -Gen.

drug

This is the second time the college has been involved in a drugs scandal .

In a night of frantic desperation, rumours of the drug scandal were leaking by the hour.

No wonder so many sports fans blame television and corporate cash for the erosion of amateurism and the endless drug scandals .

All the competitors, it seemed, had backwards baseball caps and were embroiled in drug scandals .

Despite the drug scandal , Britain is doing well at Barcelona.

watergate

In the Watergate scandal , obstruction of justice was number one in the articles of impeachment approved by the House Judiciary Committee.

To them, the Watergate scandal that forced his resignation is distant history.

Most observers believed that he caved in only because of his weakened political position due to the Watergate scandal .

Congress has not passed comprehensive campaign finance legislation since 1974, in the wake of the Watergate scandal .

It attacks the fundamental flaws and loopholes in the campaign finance regulatory system adopted in the wake of the Watergate scandal .

But unbeknown to the public, he already was involved in covering up the Watergate scandal .

■ VERB

break

Those parliamentary gossips still in London enduring the boredom of the silly season waited in happy expectation for the scandal to break .

Casey died of a brain tumor before the scandal broke .

Ever since the scandal broke , the hunt has been on for scapegoats.

He was summarily dismissed from his job and the scandal broke on the front pages of Britain's national press.

Could the actor really be that stupid, with the scandal breaking that morning and all?

In the last days of 1990 a new scandal broke .

For some days after the scandal broke , the press could find out nothing about him.

cause

My leaving Lula caused quite a scandal in Berlin; but that period with her could have been deadly for me.

To introduce too many changes, he argued, would cause scandal among the faithful.

implicate

Melancia, who had been appointed to the post in mid-1987, had been implicated in a financial scandal in February 1990.

Members of all political parties, including the ex-Communists, are implicated in the scandal .

involve

This is the second time the college has been involved in a drugs scandal .

They have become involved in debilitating scandals and disastrous adventures following election victories.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a financial scandal

A major scandal erupted in November 1989, with the discovery that cattle in the UK and Netherlands had been given food contaminated with lead.

a sex scandal involving senior politicians

Have you heard the latest scandal ? Mick Green's been arrested for bribery and corruption.

He resigned a few days after the scandal broke.

The scandal over the deal forced the corporation's president to resign in disgrace.

The administration has been plagued by scandal and controversy.

The newspapers only seem interested in gossip and scandal .

the worst spy scandal in US history

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

And she will do anything to avoid another royal scandal - even if it means not seeing Charles while speculation persists.

Another well-documented scandal has been the sale of unsuitable or dangerous medicines in the Third World.

But he was a bit of a womaniser and got mixed up in some scandal .

He vowed that no hint of scandal would ever be attached to him.

The funding scandal now looks set to run and run.

There were a number of corporate scandals, mostly involving illegal political funding.

What I did not anticipate was that this would prove to be a matter as much of intrigue and scandal as of science.

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