noun
ADJECTIVE
▪ big , great , major
▪ current , recent
▪ national , public
▪ abuse , accounting , bribery , corporate , corruption , doping , drug ( esp. AmE ), drugs ( esp. BrE ), financial , political , sex , sexual
▪
a sex-abuse ~
▪
the prisoner-abuse ~
▪ real
▪
The real ~ is that nothing has been done to make sure it doesn't happen again.
… OF SCANDALS
▪ series , spate , wave
▪
The government was rocked by a series of ~s.
VERB + SCANDAL
▪ cause , create
▪ avoid , prevent
▪ investigate
▪ expose , reveal , uncover
▪ cover up , hush up
▪ be embroiled in , be implicated in , be involved in
▪
There have been calls for the resignation of the official involved in the sex ~.
SCANDAL + VERB
▪ be brewing ( esp. AmE ), break , develop , erupt , unfold
▪
The ~ broke on the front pages of all the papers the next day.
▪ rock sth
▪ involve sb/sth
▪ engulf sb/sth ( esp. BrE ), surround sb/sth
▪
financial ~s surrounding the government
SCANDAL + NOUN
▪ sheet (= a newspaper that publishes stories intended to shock the public)
PREPOSITION
▪ in a/the ~
▪
He was imprisoned for his part in the bribery ~.
▪ ~ over
▪
the ~s over corruption in public life
PHRASES
▪ the centre/center of a ~
▪
The apartment was paid for by the bank at the centre/center of the ~.
▪ a hint of ~ , a suggestion of ~
▪
Until the story was published there had been no hint of ~.
▪ in the wake of a ~
▪
In the wake of recent accounting ~s, new cases have come to light.