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.