scandal

scandal is a 7-letter English word with 7 senses as noun and transitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Offense caused or experienced; reproach or reprobation called forth by what is regarded as wrong, criminal, heinous, or flagrant: opprobrium or disgrace. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 13 · 7 senses

Definitions

1. noun. Offense caused or experienced; reproach or reprobation called forth by what is regarded as wrong, criminal, heinous, or flagrant: opprobrium or disgrace.
2. noun. Reproachful aspersion; opprobrious censure; defamatory talk, uttered heedlessly or maliciously.
3. noun. Anything alleged in pleading which is impertinent, and is reproachful to any person, or which derogates from the dignity of the court, or is contrary to good manners.
4. transitive verb. To treat opprobriously; to defame; to asperse; to traduce; to slander.
5. transitive verb. To scandalize; to offend.
6. noun. disgraceful gossip about the private lives of other people

   Synonyms: dirt

7. noun. a disgraceful event

   Synonyms: outrage

Synonyms

dirt, outrage

Common word forms

scandals, scandaled, scandaling, scandalise, scandalize, scandalled, scandalous, scandalling

Words from these letters

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