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Noun: scandal  skan-d(u)l
  1. A disgraceful event
    "The political scandal rocked the nation";
    - outrage
     
  2. Disgraceful gossip about the private lives of other people
    "The office was rife with scandal about the new employee";
    - dirt, malicious gossip

Derived forms: scandals

Type of: comment, goss [Brit, informal], gossip, scuttlebutt [N. Amer, informal], trouble

Encyclopedia: Scandal