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Allusions--Cultural, Literary, Biblical, and Historical: A Thematic Dictionary | 1986 | Copyright

576. Scandal (See also Controversy.)

Abélard, Peter (1079–c. 1144) French theologian takes Héloïse, abbess, as lover; marries her in secret. [Fr. Hist.: EB, I: 18]
Black Sox Scandal Chicago White Sox baseball players accused of taking bribes to lose the 1919 World Series. [Sports: EB, II: 66]
Chappaquiddick car driven by Senator Edward Kennedy plunges off bridge; woman companion dies (1969). [Am. Hist.: Facts (1969), 452]
Edward VIII (1894–1972) King of Britain whose decision to marry a divorcee forced him to abdicate throne (1936). [Br. Hist.: NCE, 835–836]
$64,000 Question, The game show discovered to be fixed (1958). [TV : Terrace, II, 295–296]
South Sea Bubble fraud is exposed in British South Sea Company (1720). [Br. Hist.: EB, IX: 383]
Teapot Dome government oil reserves fraudulently leased to private concerns (1922). [Am. Hist.: Flexner, 353]
Watergate scandals involving Nixon’s administration (1972). [Am. Hist.: Kane, 460–462]

Scapegoat (See DUPERY .)

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scandal

The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English | 2009 | Copyright

scan·dal / ˈskandl/ • n. an action or event regarded as morally or legally wrong and causing general public outrage: a bribery scandal involving one of his key supporters. ∎ the outrage or anger caused by such an action or event: divorce was cause for scandal on the island. ∎ rumor or malicious gossip about such events or actions: I know that you would want no scandal attached to her name. ∎ [in sing.] a state of affairs regarded as wrong or reprehensible and causing general public outrage or anger: it's a scandal that many older patients are dismissed as untreatable. ORIGIN: Middle English: from Old French scandale, from ecclesiastical Latin scandalum ‘cause of offense,’ from Greek skandalon ‘snare, stumbling block.’

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scandal

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | | Copyright

scandal discredit to religion caused by a religious person; occasion of unbelief, stumbling-block; damage to reputation; grossly discreditable thing; defamatory speech. XVI. — F. scandale — ChrL. scandalum (Vulg.) cause of offence — Hellenistic Gr. skándalon snare for an enemy, cause of moral stumbling, orig. trap, rel. to Skr. skándati jumps, L. scandere climb.
So scandalize¹ †make public scandal of XV; †be an occasion of stumbling to; slander; disgrace XVI; horrify by impropriety XVII. — (O)F. scandaliser or ChrL. scandalizāre — ecclGr. skandalizein. scandalous. XVI. — F. or medL.

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scandal

A Dictionary of the Bible | 1997 | | Copyright

scandal A literal translation of the Greek noun, which means something which causes offence, such as the Cross, which is a ‘scandal’ to the Jews (1 Cor. 1: 23). Satan was a ‘scandal’ to Jesus in tempting him to sin (Matt. 16: 23). Modern theologians have spoken of the ‘scandal’ (offensiveness) of the uniqueness of Jesus. More often the word is used today of the disasters caused to a community by unacceptable behaviour of its members.

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scandal

Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes | 2007 | Copyright

scandal •addle, paddle, saddle, skedaddle, staddle, straddle •candle, Coromandel, dandle, Handel, handle, mishandle, Randall, sandal, scandal, vandal •manhandle, panhandle •packsaddle • side-saddle •backpedal, heddle, medal, meddle, pedal, peddle, treadle •Grendel, Kendall, Lendl, Mendel, Rendell, sendal, Wendell •cradle, ladle •beadle, bipedal, credal, needle, wheedle •diddle, fiddle, griddle, kiddle, Liddell, middle, piddle, riddle, twiddle •brindle, dwindle, kindle, spindle, swindle, Tyndale •paradiddle, taradiddle •pyramidal • apsidal •bridal, bridle, fratricidal, genocidal, germicidal, homicidal, idle, idol, infanticidal, insecticidal, intertidal, matricidal, parricidal, patricidal, pesticidal, regicidal, sidle, suicidal, tidal, tyrannicidal, uxoricidal •coddle, doddle, model, noddle, swaddle, toddle, twaddle, waddle •fondle, rondel •mollycoddle •caudal, chordal, dawdle •poundal, roundel •Gödel, modal, yodel •crinoidal •boodle, caboodle, canoodle, doodle, feudal, noodle, poodle, strudel, udal •befuddle, cuddle, fuddle, huddle, muddle, puddle, ruddle •bundle, trundle •prebendal • synodal •antipodal, tripodal •citadel •curdle, engirdle, girdle, hurdle •dirndl

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