scandal

«scandal» in Mova's school dictionary: something wrong or shameful that people find out about… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a scandal, scandals; scandal, uncountable)

meaning for a pupil

1) A scandal is something wrong or shameful that people find out about and are shocked by, such as a famous person lying or cheating. tree →

2) Scandal is talk and gossip about such things. tree →

3) (informal) "It's a scandal" means something is very unfair or wrong. tree →

sense in the lessons

Very common in news, tabloids and gossip. In media lessons, children learn that a scandal is often reported loudly and some details may be rumours. Phrases: «cause a scandal», «a political scandal», «a scandal broke», «caught up in a scandal», «It's a scandal that…».

examples

• The scandal was on the front page of every newspaper. tree →
• The footballer was caught up in a cheating scandal. tree →
• It's a scandal that the park has no toilets. tree →
• The minister lost her job after the scandal. tree →
• Tabloids love scandal. tree →
• The village was buzzing with scandal about the missing cake. tree →
• When the scandal broke, the singer said sorry. tree →
• For fear of scandal he kept the matter quiet and searched everywhere he could think of, but all to no purpose. tree →

note

Countable for one event («two scandals»), uncountable for gossip in general («full of scandal»). Adjective: scandalous; verb: scandalise/scandalize (shock). Not every rumour is a true scandal; check the facts.

In the corpora

• Famous people still buy chocolate, rewear dresses and get haircuts; none of that is a scandal.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «scandal» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.