Dictionary Entry
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
- 1noun
Offense caused or experienced; reproach or reprobation called forth by what is regarded as wrong, criminal, heinous, or flagrant: opprobrium or disgrace.
- 2noun
Reproachful aspersion; opprobrious censure; defamatory talk, uttered heedlessly or maliciously.
- 3noun
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.
- 4transitive verb
To treat opprobriously; to defame; to asperse; to traduce; to slander.
- 5transitive verb
To scandalize; to offend.
- 6noun
disgraceful gossip about the private lives of other people
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- 7noun
a disgraceful event
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