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▸ noun: Damage to one's reputation.
▸ noun: Widespread moral outrage, indignation, as over an offence to decency.
▸ noun: (theology) A word or deed, lacking in rectitude in some manner, which is an occasion of the spiritual ruin of another.
▸ noun: Defamatory talk; gossip, slander.
▸ noun: (Philippines, colloquial) amateur or homemade pornography; (informal) commotion.
▸ verb: (obsolete) To defame; to slander.
▸ verb: (obsolete) To scandalize; to offend.
▸ noun: (biology, evolution, taxonomy, pathology) Ellipsis of SCANDAL taxon; a species or taxon which speciated due to the SCANDAL process.
▸ noun: (biology, evolution, taxonomy, pathology) Ellipsis of SCANDAL process; the mechanism for speciation through cancer cells becoming independent of the originating creature, and living on.
Similar:
outrage,
dirt,
malicious gossip,
scandalization,
esclandre,
disgrace,
discredit,
skandall,
scandalizing,
scandalum magnatum,
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