scandal
/ˈskændəl/ 名词 B2中文： 丑事、丑闻
- An incident or event that disgraces or damages the reputation of the persons or organization involved. · Their affair was reported as a scandal by most tabloids.
- Damage to one's reputation. · The incident brought considerable scandal to his family.
- Widespread moral outrage, indignation, as over an offence to decency. · When their behaviour was made public it caused a great scandal.
- A word or deed, lacking in rectitude in some manner, which is an occasion of the spiritual ruin of another.
- Defamatory talk; gossip, slander. · According to village scandal, they weren't even married.
- amateur or homemade pornography
- commotion.
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Without any open scandal, he still made India too hot to hold him.
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.
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.”
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.
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