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11Scandal — Scandal, so v.w. Skandal …
12Scandal — Drame de Michael Caton Jones, avec John Hurt, Joanne Whalley Kilmer, Ian McKellen, Bridget Fonda, Britt Ekland. Pays: Grande Bretagne Date de sortie: 1989 Technique: couleurs Durée: 1 h 54 Résumé Évocation de l affaire… …
13scandal — n 1 *offense, sin, vice, crime Analogous words: indignity, insult, *affront: offending or offense, outraging or outrage (see corresponding verbs at OFFEND): wrong, grievance, injury, *injustice 2 * …
14scandal — [n] public embarrassment aspersion, backbiting, backstabbing, belittlement, calumny, crime, defamation, depreciation, detraction, dirty linen*, discredit, disgrace, dishonor, disparagement, disrepute, dynamite, eavesdropping, gossip, hearsay,… …
15scandal — ► NOUN 1) an action or event regarded as morally or legally wrong and causing general public outrage. 2) outrage, rumour, or gossip arising from this. ORIGIN Latin scandalum cause of offence , from Greek skandalon snare, stumbling block …
16scandal — [skan′dəl] n. [altered (infl. by Fr scandale or LL) < ME scandle < OFr escandele < LL(Ec) scandalum, cause for stumbling, temptation < Gr(Ec) skandalon, a snare: see DESCEND] 1. Christian Theol. unseemly conduct of a religious person… …
17scandal — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ big, great, major ▪ current, recent ▪ national, public ▪ abuse …
18scandal — scan|dal [ˈskændl] n [Date: 1100 1200; : Late Latin; Origin: scandalum offense , from Greek skandalon] 1.) an event in which someone, especially someone important, behaves in a bad way that shocks people ▪ It caused quite a scandal when he left… …
19scandal — n. 1) to cause, create a scandal 2) to cover up, hush up; uncover a scandal 3) a juicy, sensational scandal 4) an open; political; public scandal 5) a scandal bursts, erupts 6) a breath, hint, suggestion of scandal 7) a scandal that + clause (it… …
20scandal */*/ — UK [ˈskænd(ə)l] / US noun Word forms scandal : singular scandal plural scandals 1) a) [countable/uncountable] a situation in which important people behave in a dishonest or immoral way that shocks people a sex scandal The company has been damaged …
