Definition of scandal
- n. - Offense caused or experienced; reproach or reprobation
called forth by what is regarded as wrong, criminal, heinous, or
flagrant: opprobrium or disgrace.
- n. - Reproachful aspersion; opprobrious censure; defamatory
talk, uttered heedlessly or maliciously.
- n. - 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.
- v. t. - To treat opprobriously; to defame; to asperse; to
traduce; to slander.
- v. t. - To scandalize; to offend.