Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - scandal
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Scandal
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~ n 1 behaviour or events, often involving famous people, that are considered to be immoral or shocking (a sex scandal involving several government officials | Some newspapers thrive on spreading gossip and scandal. | a scandal breaks (=becomes known to everyone)) (They had already left the country when the scandal broke.) 2 be a scandal spoken to be very shocking or unacceptable (The price of beef these days is an absolute scandal!)
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(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 c darkgreen]disapproval ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Late Latin ~um stumbling block, offense, from Greek skandalon trap, stumbling block, offense; akin to Latin scandere to climb Date: 13th century 1. a. discredit brought upon religion by unseemly conduct in a religious person b. conduct that causes or encourages a lapse of faith or of religious obedience in another 2. loss of or damage to reputation caused by actual or apparent violation of morality or propriety ; disgrace 3. a. a circumstance or action that offends propriety or established moral conceptions or disgraces those associated with it b. a person whose conduct offends propriety or morality a ~ to the profession 4. malicious or defamatory gossip 5. indignation, chagrin, or bewilderment brought about by a flagrant violation of morality, propriety, or religious opinion Synonyms: see offense II. transitive verb Date: 1592 1. obsolete disgrace 2. chiefly dialect defame, slander ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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n. 1 a a thing or a person causing general public outrage or indignation. b the outrage etc. so caused, esp. as a subject of common talk. c malicious gossip or backbiting. 2 Law a public affront, esp. an irrelevant abusive statement in court. Phrases and idioms scandal sheet derog. a newspaper etc. giving prominence to esp. malicious gossip. Derivatives scandalous adj. scandalously adv. scandalousness n. Etymology: ME f. OF scandale f. eccl.L scandalum f. Gk skandalon snare, stumbling-block ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. позорный, постыдный факт; скандальное происшествие what a scandal! —- какой срам (скандал)! political scandal —- политический скандал to be the scandal of one's family —- быть позором для своей семьи it is a scandal that he should have been acquitted! —- какой позор, что его оправдали! 2. возмущение (каким-л. позорным фактом); широкая огласка, скандал to hush up a scandal —- замять скандал the incident brought about (gave rise to, caused) a grave scandal —- этот инцидент вызвал большой скандал to create a scandal —- разг. наделать много шуму without any scandal —- без шума; не вызывая скандала to bring scandal upon smb. —- ославить (осрамить) кого-л. 3. собир. сплетни, злословие a piece (a bit) of scandal —- сплетня society scandal —- светские сплетни to talk scandal —- сплетничать to talk scandal about smb. —- злословить на чей-л. счет don't listen to scandal! —- не слушайте сплетен! 4. преим. юр. злоумышленная сплетня; клевета; публичное оскорбление 5. рел. проступок, прегрешение (верующего); соблазн to give scandal to weaker brethren —- вводить в соблазн нетвердых в вере 6. рел. оскорбление религиозных чувств, дискредитация церкви 7. уст. сплетничать, злословить; поносить, бесчестить (кого-л.) ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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noun 1) позорный, неприличный поступок - what a scandal! - it is a perfect scandal! 2) злословие, сплетни; to talk scandal - сплетничать ...Англо-русский словарь
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- 1581, "discredit caused by irreligious conduct," from M.Fr. scandale, from L.L. scandalum "cause for offense, stumbling block, temptation," from Gk. skandalon "stumbling block," originally "trap with a springing device," from PIE *skand- "jump." Meaning "malicious gossip" is from 1596. Scandalize (1489) originally meant "make a public scandal of;" sense of "shock by doing something improper" first recorded 1647. Scandal sheet "sensational newspaper" is from 1939. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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