SCANDAL


Meaning of SCANDAL in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ skænd(ə)l ]

( scandals)

Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.

1.

A scandal is a situation or event that is thought to be shocking and immoral and that everyone knows about.

...a financial scandal.

N-COUNT : usu with supp

2.

Scandal is talk about the shocking and immoral aspects of someone’s behaviour or something that has happened.

He loved gossip and scandal...

N-UNCOUNT

3.

If you say that something is a scandal , you are angry about it and think that the people responsible for it should be ashamed.

It is a scandal that a person can be stopped for no reason by the police.

= disgrace

N-SING : oft N that [ disapproval ]

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