Толковый словарь английского языка - scandal
Scandal
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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. discredit brought upon religion by unseemly conduct in a religious person, conduct that causes or encourages a lapse of faith or of religious obedience in another, loss of or damage to reputation caused by actual or apparent violation of morality or propriety ; disgrace , 3. a circumstance or action that offends propriety or established moral conceptions or disgraces those associated with it, a person whose conduct offends propriety or morality , malicious or defamatory gossip, indignation, chagrin, or bewilderment brought about by a flagrant violation of morality, propriety, or religious opinion, see: offense II. transitive verb Date: 1592 disgrace , defame , slander
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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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