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scandal

/ˈskændəl/ sustantivo B2

En español: escándalo

  1. An incident or event that disgraces or damages the reputation of the persons or organization involved. (countable, uncountable) · Their affair was reported as a scandal by most tabloids.
  2. Damage to one's reputation. (countable, uncountable) · The incident brought considerable scandal to his family.
  3. Widespread moral outrage, indignation, as over an offence to decency. (countable, uncountable) · When their behaviour was made public it caused a great scandal.
  4. A word or deed, lacking in rectitude in some manner, which is an occasion of the spiritual ruin of another. (countable, uncountable)
  5. Defamatory talk; gossip, slander. (countable, uncountable) · According to village scandal, they weren't even married.
  6. amateur or homemade pornography (colloquial, countable, uncountable)
  7. commotion. (colloquial, countable, informal, uncountable)

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Without any open scandal, he still made India too hot to hold him.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes, p. 30 · C1
It is unlikely that a youngster like Adair would at once make a hideous scandal by exposing a well-known man so much older than himself.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes, p. 32 · C1
You have saved an innocent man’s life, and you have prevented a very grave scandal, which would have ruined my reputation in the Force.”
The Return of Sherlock Holmes, p. 62 · C1
When a man is lost it is my duty to ascertain his fate, but having done so the matter ends so far as I am concerned, and so long as there is nothing criminal I am much more anxious to hush up private scandals than to give them publicity.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes, p. 124 · C1

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