Usually means: Disgraceful incident causing public outrage.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. scandal: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. scandal: Merriam-Webster
  3. scandal: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. scandal: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. scandal: Collins English Dictionary
  6. scandal: Vocabulary.com
  7. Scandal, scandal: Wordnik
  8. scandal: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. scandal: Wiktionary
  10. scandal: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. scandal: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. scandal: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. scandal: Dictionary.com
  14. scandal: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. scandal: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. SCANDAL, Scandal (American band), Scandal (EP), Scandal (Japanese band), Scandal (TV series), Scandal (album), Scandal (band), Scandal (comics), Scandal (disambiguation), Scandal (film), Scandal (season Scandal+++(season+++1)), Scandal (season 2), Scandal (season 3), Scandal (season 4), Scandal (season 5), Scandal (season 6), Scandal (season 7), Scandal (short story), Scandal (song), Scandal, The Scandal (TV series): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Scandal: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. scandal: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. scandal: Rhymezone
  20. scandal: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. scandal: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Scandal: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  23. SCANDAL: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  24. scandal: FreeDictionary.org
  25. scandal: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. scandal: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. scandal: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. scandal: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. scandal: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Scandal: Catholic Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Scandal: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See scandaling as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  An incident or event that disgraces or damages the reputation of the persons or organization involved.
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.

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