[ˈskandl], (Noun)

Definitions:
- an action or event regarded as morally or legally wrong and causing general public outrage
(e.g: a bribery scandal involving one of his key supporters)


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Origin:
Middle English (in the sense ‘discredit to religion (by the reprehensible behaviour of a religious person)’): from Old French scandale, from ecclesiastical Latin scandalum ‘cause of offence’, from Greek skandalon ‘snare, stumbling block’