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SCANDAL

1. Offense caused or experienced; reproach or reprobation called forth by what is regarded as incorrect, criminal, heinous, or flagrant: opprobrium or disgrace. "O, what a scandal is it to our crown, That two such noble peers as ye must jar!" (Shak) "[I] have brought scandal To Israel, diffidence of God, and doubt In feeble hearts." (Milton) 2. Reproachful aspersion; opprobrious censure; defamatory conversation, uttered heedlessly or maliciously. "You should not put other scandal on him." (Shak) "My known virtue is from scandal free." (Dryden) 3. Anything alleged in pleading which is impertinent, and is reproachful to any face, or which derogates from the dignity of the court, or is contrary to good manners. Synonym: Defamation, detraction, slander, calumny, opprobrium, reproach, shame, disgrace. Origin: F. Scandale, fr. L. Scandalum, Gr, a snare laid for an enemy, a stumbling block, offense, scandal: cf. OE. Scandle, OF. Escandle. See Slander. Source: Websters Vocabulary
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