(~s)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
A ~ is a situation or event that is thought to be shocking and immoral and that everyone knows about.
...a financial ~.
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 ~...
N-UNCOUNT
3.
If you say that something is a ~, you are angry about it and think that the people responsible for it should be ashamed.
It is a ~ that a person can be stopped for no reason by the police.
= disgrace
N-SING: oft N that disapproval