scandal

scan|dal [ˈskændl] n

[Date: 1100-1200; : Late Latin; Origin: scandalum 'offense', from Greek skandalon]

1.)

an event in which someone, especially someone important, behaves in a bad way that shocks people

▪ It caused quite a scandal when he left his wife.

▪ The college has recently been involved in a drugs scandal .

▪ He has been at the centre of a political scandal .

▪ a major scandal involving the government

▪ a series of financial scandals

▪ a sex scandal that ruined his reputation

▪ They had already left the country when the scandal broke .

2.) [U]

talk about dishonest or immoral things that famous or important people are believed to have done

▪ The magazine is full of gossip and scandal.

3.) be a scandal

BrE spoken to be very shocking or unacceptable

▪ The price of petrol these days is an absolute scandal!

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COLLOCATES for sense 1

cause a scandal

be involved in a scandal

be (at) the centre of a scandal

big/major scandal

financial/political scandal

corruption/sex/drugs etc scandal

a scandal breaks (=a scandal becomes known)

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